Inaction for a year in a pending matter proved costly for Mahananda, an Inspector with the Central Crime Branch (CCB) of City Police, as the HC directed him to pay Rs 10,000 as cost to the Karnataka State Legal Services Authority.
The officer was pulled up with regard to a plea filed by Hariraj Shetty & other office-bearers of a recreation club in west Bengaluru, in 2015. They had challenged the raid on their premises by CCB Police & the Court had sought certain records pertaining to the operation.
Justice PB Bajanthri noted that the officer, who had taken charge on Dec 19, 2019, had sufficient time to verify litigation that was pending & had to be attended. He has been told to furnish the register maintained in respect of pending litigation in his office at the next date of hearing (December 4) to verify how many matters he has attended to & acted upon. In Feb 2015, a fax message was sent to the inspector’s office intimating that March 3, 2015, was the next date of hearing but there was no response.
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The petitioners had alleged that Police had raided the club on Feb 2, 2015, on a false complaint about gambling. They had sought for a direction to Police not to register an FIR & also not to arrest them.
On Feb 27, 2015, the High Court ordered notice to the Police. The investigating officer was told to furnish records by March 3, 2015, but he failed to comply with that. Thereafter, the matter had come up for hearing several times. On Nov 17, 2020, Justice Bajanthri pulled up police & directed the inspector concerned to appear before the Court with all the records. Though the inspector appeared, only some records were produced.
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