Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 17
Rapping the investigating agency for not making efforts to arrest an accused or declare him a proclaimed offender in a drugs case, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today called for an explanation from the Faridabad Commissioner of Police.
"The respondent-state is directed to file an affidavit of the Commissioner of Police, Faridabad, explaining inaction on the part of the investigating agency and to give details of what prevented it from initiating action against the petitioner-accused at the relevant time," directed Justice Lalit Batra.
The direction came after Justice Batra observed that action was being initiated after the acquittal of the main accused in the matter. The state was directed to file a status report in the case before the next date of hearing.
The matter was placed before Justice Batra after accused Parkash Tiwari moved the HC against Haryana for quashing of an FIR registered at the Surajkund police station in Faridabad district in August 2018 under the NDPS Act. The Bench was told that the main accused, Man Bahadur, had already been acquitted vide a judgment dated May 29, 2019.
Issuing a notice of motion to the state and the other respondents, Justice Batra asserted a perusal of the record revealed that the petitioner was not named in the FIR, but his name surfaced later in the array of accused in terms of a disclosure statement rendered by Man Bahadur in August 2018.
Yet, efforts were not made by the investigating agency to arrest the petitioner or declare him a proclaimed offender till the acquittal of the main accused. The case will now come up for further hearing in the third week of April.
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