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The High Court held that there are no prospects of a free and fair investigation of the assault case by the Investigating Agency of UT, Chandigarh. The Court found that the Chandigarh Police SIT was proceeding in a tainted manner to give benefit to the accused serving police officials and was trying to create…
Read the court recordThe Punjab and Haryana High Court (Sukhvinder Kaur, J., Deepak Sibal, J. concurring) dismissed the writ of Chandigarh Police constable, upholding the stoppage of 10 annual increments with permanent effect (reduced by the DIG from 15). On the intervening night of 25/26 July 2012, Kumar and fellow patrol constable…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. On 10 July 1999 Head Constable of Chandigarh Police entered an advocate residential office in an inebriated state, claimed to be the lane beat officer, then pointed his service pistol and threatened to kill. The Court recorded that the…
Read the court recordThe Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed SI 's appeal and confirmed his CBI-court conviction for demanding a bribe to release a motorcycle retained after a July 2005 road accident in Chandigarh. The demand of Rs 5,000, reduced to Rs 2,000, was proved by the shadow witness even though the complainant turned hostile…
Read the court recordA Division Bench partly allowed the writ of Phoolwati, mother of 21-year-old a Chandigarh man, who died in custody at PS Manimajra on 11 July 2007 after being taken to SI 's first-floor room and found fallen from a height. The Court accepted the SDM's magisterial enquiry finding the SI guilty of negligence and gross…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court dismissed former Punjab DGP K.P.S. Gill's appeal (Crl. A. 1032/1998) and upheld his conviction under Sections 354 and 509 IPC for slapping the posterior of a woman senior IAS officer at a Chandigarh dinner party on 18 July 1988. The Sessions Judge had replaced the custodial sentence with release on…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court restored the dismissal of Chandigarh Sub-Inspector, caught red-handed in uniform on 29 January 1991 accepting a Rs 2,000 bribe at the complainant's residence for releasing gold ornaments and articles retained at the police station. The SSP had dismissed him under Article 311(2)(b) on a DSP's report…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Supreme Court of India records the following account. SI (No.CHG/1, PS North) picked up a Chandigarh man from his house around 11:45 pm on 3/4 July 1991 with two guests, detained and tortured him in the station on a baseless plea of harbouring terrorists, and demanded Rs.60,000 for release…
Read the court recordThe Punjab and Haryana High Court held Chandigarh Administration and Punjab jointly and severally liable for the 23 October 1990 police firing on anti-Mandal demonstrators at the Sectors 37-38 crossing, in which a 21-year-old driver was killed. The Court found no warning, unlawful-assembly declaration, lathi charge…
Read the court recordThe Supreme Court restored the dismissal of Sub-Inspector of Police Station Sector-11, Chandigarh, who had extorted Rs 50,000 from fake-passport accused [name withheld] and demanded Rs 50,000 more with threats. The DSP (Central)'s March 1994 report affirmed the complaint and recorded that witnesses were terrorised and…
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