A city court has filed a complaint against four Delhi police personnel, including an inspector, for implicating four men in a false robbery case saying it involved serious constitutional and human rights violations.
Rohini court additional sessions judge (ASJ) Dr Kamini Lau also issued notice to the Delhi government seeking its response as to why compensation should not be granted to the four men who were acquitted in the case.
Expressing serious concern over the manner in which the four police officers acted to implicate the accused, Dr Lau said, “Serious constitutional and human right violations have been observed by this court in the present case. None of the accused before this court who all come from very poor families, have any previous criminal record. They have suffered detention and trial for an offence they have never committed.”
The court acquitted Dalip Kumar, Deepak, Ravinder and Vikas, who were accused of robbing Nitin, the complainant, of his wallet and a mobile phone at knife point on January this year at Jahangirpuri.
The court expressed surprise after Nitin testified before it that no incident of robbery had taken place.
He deposed that he went to the police station on the instruction of his employer, property dealers Kuldeep Soni, Deepak Soni and Vishwajeet, where constable Sajjan Singh, head constable Dalip, assistant sub inspector (ASI) Umed Singh and inspector S.B. Yadav allegedly made him sign some blank sheets.
The complainant did not identify any of the accused during the trial.