Balwinder Singh Sekhon, the ex-DSP behind medicine case controversy
Saurabh Malik
Chandigarh, February 21
A decade after the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket took suo motu cognisance of the drug menace in Punjab, the case has taken a startling flip with “malicious, libelous and derogatory movies” on judicial proceedings going viral.
Murmurs towards the judiciary by discontented litigants should not unusual in every single place. But it surely has by no means been so blatant, compelling a Division Bench to watch the individuals concerned “apparently have willingly taken on the Excessive Court docket as a way to obtain their private ends for causes greatest recognized to them”.
At coronary heart of the controversy is dismissed police official Balwinder Singh Sekhon, ordered to be arrested by the Division Bench on February 20. A Deputy Superintendent of Police, Sekhon was dismissed from service throughout then DGP Dinkar Gupta’s tenure.
His dismissal was on the grounds that “he had made disagreeable remarks towards the federal government by means of the social media whereas being a member of the disciplined drive”. Out there data suggests among the movies in circulation are directed not solely towards the judiciary, but additionally Gupta and one other senior police officer.
It began through the listening to of the medicine case. The Bench noticed it got here to note that Sekhon had been circulating malicious, libelous and derogatory movies. The Bench stated it was, in reality, knowledgeable about circulation of numerous movies previous to the itemizing of contentious issues. The Bench additionally noticed {that a} video was circulated on January 26 previous to the courtroom proceedings the subsequent day, “referring to greater than 10 Judges of this Court docket towards whom scandalous allegations had been levelled and one Decide of the Supreme Court docket”.
As such, the Bench on February 15 issued discover of legal contempt. At that time of time, Pardeep Sharma –– apparently a part of a number of press conferences and that includes together with Sekhon –– appeared earlier than the Bench to defend him. Sharma was knowledgeable that he was a non-entity and will file an utility to intervene, if he wished. Sharma was marshalled out with the police assist after he continued to insist on being heard.
The matter didn’t cease there. Apparently, each the respondents selected to air their views in open on the Excessive Court docket entrance and launched “a vicious tirade” on the proceedings.
The Bench in its order noticed: “He (Sharma) disparagedly remarked about one in all us and the truth that his father was additionally a Chief Justice and he additionally didn’t have the heart to open the stories. Sekhon then named two senior police officers, on account of which, the stories had not been opened and he claimed to be a whistle-blower and that the Bench would moist its pants if the envelopes had been opened. It was additional commented that the Judges had been leashed by a sure set of individuals”.
The 2, together with a channel reporter, the subsequent day uploaded one other video in an “effort to tarnish the repute of this Court docket”. The Bench then directed Ludhiana Commissioner of Police to make sure the arrest of the 2.
Was dismissed from Punjab Police
At coronary heart of the controversy is dismissed DSP Balwinder Singh Sekhon, ordered to be arrested by the Division Bench on February 20. Sekhon was dismissed from service throughout then DGP Dinkar Gupta’s tenure on the grounds that “he had made disagreeable remarks towards the federal government by means of the social media whereas being a member of the disciplined drive”.