The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday directed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to conduct a fresh probe into a 2008 assault and robbery case after it expressed doubts on the credibility of the charge sheet filed by the city police in the incident.
Justice S.N. Satyanarayana found that the charge sheet, filed by the Viveknagar police, appeared to be an attempt made to protect three police personnel named in the complaint . The Court passed the order on a petition filed by Kriplani M., who was a CEO of a private company when the incident occurred. The police had stopped the car in which the petitioner and his friends were travelling after dinner on the midnight of September 29, 2008 for certain checks. The petitioner alleged that the traffic police had assaulted him when he posed some questions to them. Though the Viveknagar police had booked him for allegedly interfering with the duty of traffic police, they did not register any complaint against the police personnel.
However, in October 2008, the Viveknagar police, on the intervention of the State Human Rights Commission, had registered an FIR based on petitioner’s complaint, against a sub-inspector in the Ashoknagar Traffic Police and two constables from Viveknagar police station. In the charge sheet, the police in March 2009 instead named J.L.Rathnakumar, a traffic warden and his wife, Irina, under charges of robbery and destruction of evidence.
