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Plea to proceed against police officer rejected

By Our Staff Reporter

MADURAI, OCT. 17. The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court rejected a petition, seeking orders to help the petitioner vindicate that he was a victim of malicious proceedings, allegedly supported by the Joint Commissioner of Police, Chennai, Sylendra Babu.

M. K. Lakshmi Kumar, of Sivaganga, also prayed that the court order the Home Secretary to initiate disciplinary action against Mr. Sylendra Babu for his `malicious proceedings' launched while he was serving as Superintendent of Police, Sivaganga, in 1996, and direct the Inspector of Police, Madhagupatti, Sivaganga district, to take follow-up action on a complaint he had filed in December 1996.

Mr. Lakshmi Kumar said he was subjected to mental agony because of a criminal case filed against him by a group of villagers before the Judicial Magistrate— I, Sivaganga. He claimed that he was put to hardship because Mr. Sylendra Babu had failed to act on a complaint he had filed against the villagers. Had the SP taken action, the villagers would not have had a chance to foist a case on him, he argued.

Justice N. Kannadasan rejected the plea to proceed against Mr. Babu, ruling that the trial court, which acquitted him in the criminal case, did not find any fault with the police officer. The judge also said: "I do not agree with the petitioner's contention that he could pursue the complaint filed by him in 1996, because a case registered against him had ended in an acquittal in 2004. The petitioner is not expected to keep idle for all these years."

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