The excessive court docket has directed the Punjab director basic of police (DGP) to probe function of a deputy superintendent of a police (DSP) and different officers related to the investigation into a medication seizure case registered in 2023.
The court docket was listening to a bail plea from one Malkeet Singh, arrested in reference to seizure of two,000 intoxicant tablets. The FIR was registered on October 14, 2023 on the Talwandi Sabo police station. (G)
The order, from the bench of justice Kuldeep Tiwari, got here after it was revealed {that a} incorrect affidavit was filed by Talwandi Sabo DSP Ishan Singla that assertion of a key particular person linked to the case had been recorded and filed with the challan. When cops realised in regards to the goof-up, a supplementary challan was filed within the case appending the assertion in query.
“…discussed material not only unearths the shoddy and unprofessional, rather biased investigation of the police official(s)/officer(s) concerned, but, also brings to the fore the audacity of the police official(s)/officer(s) to file false affidavit(s) before this court, in order to justify the implication and arrest of the petitioner in the present case,” the court docket stated deprecating the conduct of the officers “in the strongest terms”.
The court docket was listening to a bail plea from one Malkeet Singh, arrested in reference to seizure of two,000 intoxicant tablets. The FIR was registered on October 14, 2023 on the Talwandi Sabo police station. Police had claimed that he fled from the spot and left behind intoxicants and motorbike wherein they recovered a cell and his Aadhaar card. After he was arrested, his bail plea was rejected by trial court docket on Could 24 following which he Moved the excessive court docket in July 2024. In response to the plea, Singla filed an affidavit and content material of the identical was contested by the petitioner’s lawyer claiming that the challan submitted didn’t have the assertion of motorcycle proprietor, which police are claiming now and that it was an important proof earlier than laying arms on the petitioner.
The court docket ordered sealing of the report and summoned the DSP for October 4 listening to whereby he claimed that the assertion of Raj Singh, the bike proprietor, was a part of authentic challan offered on January 19, 2024. Nevertheless, court docket discovered that the assertion being cited was undated and no police entry was discovered within the report about the identical. Upon this, court docket sought a report from the trial court docket, which revealed that no assertion as being claimed by the prosecution was a part of the unique challan. It additionally revealed that on November 6, a supplementary challan was filed by the police earlier than trial court docket with an announcement recorded on September 27 of the motorbike proprietor with a very totally different image of that was projected earlier.
When the case was taken up on November 11, the court docket termed the report as “shocking revelations” and noticed that “investigating agency played smartly, and, in order to hide its previous misdeeds, it conducted further investigation and then filed a supplementary challan.”
Singla, additionally filed an affidavit apologizing to the court docket. However the bench rejected it conserving in view the “gravity” of the matter.
The court docket noticed that the fabric which has come earlier than it impels it ask the DGP to look at your complete info and maintain an inquiry in respect of the conduct of the officers and others related to the case. And likewise verify who filed false affidavit. The court docket has given one month to the DGP in search of his private affidavit asking that proposed motion towards all be spelt out. The court docket made it clear that if response just isn’t filed he would personally stay current on on December 16, the subsequent date of listening to.