SC stays Punjab HC order for organising SIT to probe Chandigarh police
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court docket on Friday stayed a Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket order, which directed registration of an FIR and organising of a particular investigation group (SIT) of Punjab Police to probe into the alleged abduction of a dentist by Chandigarh police to cease him from showing in a courtroom.
Further Solicitor Common Ok.M. Nataraj submitted earlier than a bench of Justices A.S. Bopanna and Hima Kohli, how might the excessive courtroom, whereas listening to an anticipatory bail utility, order an FIR in opposition to police officers. He additionally famous that the excessive courtroom additionally ordered for a probe by a SIT of Punjab Police, which is completely with none jurisdiction.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, representing Mohit Dhawan, argued that this is among the worst instances of police excesses he has seen. The excessive courtroom had handed the order on Dhawan’s plea.
Bhushan stated his shopper, a Chandigarh-based dentist, had filed a go well with for recovering some dues owed to him by a girl from Nairobi for her therapy and because of this, he was implicated in a sequence of complaints about improper therapy. Bhushan contended that the excessive courtroom order reveals the police filed contradictory affidavits.
The bench sought a response from Dhawan and added that the case must be thought-about at size, whereas staying the excessive courtroom order. It additionally directed Chandigarh police to protect the information, together with CCTV footage, and name particulars, pertaining to the case. The highest courtroom has scheduled the matter for additional listening to after 5 weeks.
In the course of the listening to, Bhushan submitted that three separate complaints had been filed in opposition to his shopper and in two of them, he managed to get anticipatory bail however within the third, he was requested to be current earlier than a Justice of the Peace. Nevertheless, on the day of the listening to, a group of Chandigarh crime department police “kidnapped” Dhawan, whereas one other group marked their look in courtroom, stated Bhushan.
Earlier this week, the apex courtroom had agreed to take up the plea of Chandigarh police. In accordance with the Chandigarh administration, a Nairobi nationwide accused Dhawan of dishonest her when she got here to India throughout 2017-18 to get dental implants from his clinic.
When Dhawan went to mark his presence earlier than a Justice of the Peace’s courtroom, the Chandigarh police group allegedly kidnapped him. Nevertheless, the police have claimed that he was arrested in reference to one other case.
Earlier this month, the excessive courtroom requested the Punjab DGP to represent the SIT inside per week to probe the matter.