Court fines SHO for non-compliance
The failure to verify whether a robbery case accused was actually dead or was just trying to avoid appearance in the court proved costly for the station house officer (SHO) on whom a Delhi court has imposed a fine of `10,000 for the omission.
“I impose a cost of `10,000 on the SHO of the Keshav Puram police station. The fine shall be deducted from his salary. Copy of this order be sent to the commissioner of police for compliance,” additional sessions judge (ASJ) Sanjay Kumar said.
On April 30, the judge had ordered the station house officer to depute a sub-inspector rank official to properly verify if the robbery case accused Shibu Kumar was actually dead.
Facing trial for his involvement in the case, Shibu had been granted bail earlier.
However, during the subsequent court proceedings, when Shibu failed to appear before it, the court was informed by his counsel that he was dead.
At this, the court had ordered the Keshav Puram police to properly verify if he was actually dead.
The Keshav Puram police, in turn, had entrusted the job to a trainee police official, who was not permanently posted at the police station.
The trainee official appeared before the court with a purported death verification report of Shibu. But the report did not have the correct name of the accused mentioned on it.
Following this, the court specifically asked the Keshav Puram police station station house officer to entrust the task to a sub-inspector so that he could produce either the mother, father, brother or wife of accused Shibu with all documents to prove that he has died.
But as the SHO failed to implement the order properly, the court imposed the fine upon him.
The court has now directed the deputy commissioner of police (northwest) to depute an inspector rank official to place before it the death verification report of the robbery case accused Shibu.
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