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New Delhi:Judicial officers should be morecircumspectwhile passing remarks against police officials, observed a district and sessions judge while setting aside achief metropolitan judges ordersummoning a senior Delhi Police officer...
The observations by the District and Sessions Judge Madhu Jain Saturday came on a revision petition filed by a station house officer (SHO)questioning a magistrates order that directed his personal presence in a case.. The SHO was called to assist the court after the investigating officer had failed to appear in the case.. In the case at hand, the SHO of the Badarpur Police Station was, according to the order, summoned not once or twice but about more than 300 times..
The metropolitan court had even called in the commissioner of police, Delhi, for explanations on the case, the order mentioned...
According to the order, the revision petition mentioned that the SHO had never received any strictures or any adverse remarks from the court in his entire career and merely because the investigating officer in the case did not appear on the summons of the court did not give the court any reason to pass remarks against the officer or to call for an explanation from the Delhi police commissioner...
Setting aside the chief metropolitan judges order, Madhu Jain discouraged judicial officers from making extra-judicial remarks regarding police officials, and said: If such a practice is adopted and followed by all the courts then it will be very difficult for the police officials to maintain law and order in their respective areas as they will be spending the whole of their time in the courts..
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