J. Venkatesan
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday rejected, at the admission stage, a petition filed by former police officer K. Prem Kumar, seeking a direction to suspend the conviction recorded by the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court while awarding him a month’s simple imprisonment in a case relating to handcuffing and parading of Nallakaman, an ex-serviceman.
The court had admitted a criminal appeal filed by Mr. Prem Kumar, challenging the April 3 judgment and granted him bail.
On Friday a Bench of Justice A.K. Mathur and Justice Dalveer Bhandari dismissed a miscellaneous petition filed in the same appeal after hearing counsel Sanjay Hegde for the petitioner, senior counsel R. Venkataramani for the State and counsel B. Balaji for Nallakaman, who opposed the petition.
In the miscellaneous petition, Mr. Prem Kumar said the State Government had dismissed him from service by an order dated May 21 that was pasted on his house in the middle of the night.
He had challenged the dismissal order in the Madras High Court, which had not passed any interim order.
The State was yet to file its reply.
He alleged that the entire effort appeared to be to prevent the writ petition from being effectively heard.
Calculated game
He said a calculated game was played to destroy his career notwithstanding the orders passed by the apex court. Therefore, it had become necessary to seek suspension of the conviction recorded by the High Court while awarding him one month simple imprisonment.
