The Bombay High Court on Monday asked Maharashtra government what action it had taken against policemen who arrested two girls from nearby Palghar district for posting comments on Facebook against the bandh observed in Mumbai during Bal Thackeray’s funeral in November last year.
A bench headed by Justice Abhay Oka asked prosecutor Konde-Deshmukh to file by 12 February a reply on action taken by the state government in this case.
The court was hearing a petition filed by former journalist Ketan Tirodkar who prayed for a direction to the state via Home department to order appropriate penal action against the erring cops who made the arrests.
Arguing the petition in person, Tirodkar referred to a report in a newspaper which said that an inquiry into the arrests was made by Sukhwinder Singh, Inspector General of Police (Konkan region) and report submitted to the government.
The newspaper quoted the inquiry report saying three officials did not act in time to halt the arrests and opined that the case against the girls should be withdrawn. However, Singh’s report was too weak to be acted upon, the newspaper report said.
Moreover, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan and home minister R R Patil had divergent views on action to be taken against the erring police personnel, Tirodkar said quoting the newspaper report.
WOMAN COP IN ROW OVER POEM IN POLICE BULLETIN
A woman traffic inspector was at the centre of a controversy on Monday over her poem in a Mumbai police in-house journal in which she called last year’s Azad Maidan protesters as ‘snakes’ and ‘traitors’ and suggested that their hands should have been ‘chopped off’.
A complaint was filed with the state’s home department, Mumbai police Commissioner’s office and Azad Maidan police station by Ameen Mustafa Idrisi, who runs an NGO Muslim-e- Hind, and Nazar Mohammed Siddique, one of the arrested accused in the Azad Maidan violence case and now out on bail.
A bench headed by Justice Abhay Oka asked prosecutor Konde-Deshmukh to file by 12 February a reply on action taken by the state government in this case.
The court was hearing a petition filed by former journalist Ketan Tirodkar who prayed for a direction to the state via Home department to order appropriate penal action against the erring cops who made the arrests.
Arguing the petition in person, Tirodkar referred to a report in a newspaper which said that an inquiry into the arrests was made by Sukhwinder Singh, Inspector General of Police (Konkan region) and report submitted to the government.
The newspaper quoted the inquiry report saying three officials did not act in time to halt the arrests and opined that the case against the girls should be withdrawn. However, Singh’s report was too weak to be acted upon, the newspaper report said.
Moreover, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan and home minister R R Patil had divergent views on action to be taken against the erring police personnel, Tirodkar said quoting the newspaper report.
WOMAN COP IN ROW OVER POEM IN POLICE BULLETIN
A woman traffic inspector was at the centre of a controversy on Monday over her poem in a Mumbai police in-house journal in which she called last year’s Azad Maidan protesters as ‘snakes’ and ‘traitors’ and suggested that their hands should have been ‘chopped off’.
A complaint was filed with the state’s home department, Mumbai police Commissioner’s office and Azad Maidan police station by Ameen Mustafa Idrisi, who runs an NGO Muslim-e- Hind, and Nazar Mohammed Siddique, one of the arrested accused in the Azad Maidan violence case and now out on bail.