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High Court notice to CoD, others in forgery case

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BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court has ordered issue of notice to the Corps of Detectives (CoD) and other respondents on a criminal petition by an employee of the Education Department who was arrested and charge sheeted by the CoD for allegedly forging the signature of the then Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, and the seals of the office of the Chief Minister.

The petitioner, B. Somashekhar, a First Division Assistant (FDA) in the Education Department, said on December 19, 2001 that the then Under Secretary of the Department had filed a complaint with the Vidhana Soudha police stating that the signature and seals of the then Chief Minister had been forged on some papers seeking transfer of primary school teachers.

The matter was referred to the CoD, which on August 21, 2006, filed a charge sheet before the Court of the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) for offences punishable under Sections 465, 468, 469 read with Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). He said the department too initiated proceedings against him. Mr. Somashekhar said he was an FDA in the Department from October 30, 2001 to December 19, 2001 and that he had received representations from some persons for the transfer of primary school teachers.

He said the departmental proceedings initiated against him led to his exoneration on September 13, 2006. However, the proceedings in the ACCM court continued and this, he said, is an abuse of the process of the law.

Justice Mohan Shantangouder ordered issue of notice and adjourned further hearing of the case.

Dropped

A Division Bench led by Justice S.R. Bannurmath on Friday dropped a contempt of case against David Meshak, an Inspector of Police, Sampangiramnagar, Bangalore.

The court had taken up the case against the Inspector and another respondent on a contempt petition by B. Sreepathy Rao, national general secretary of the Janata Dal (United). In his petit ion, Mr. Rao claimed that Inspector Davis Meshak and another police official had assaulted him on June 23, 2005. The next day, Mr. Rao said, he was produced before a city court.

He had filed a contempt petition saying that the police had arrested him illegally and in violation of the Supreme Court guidelines on an arrest of a person as enunciated by it in the D.K. Basu case.

A Division Bench compromising Justice S.R. Bannurmath and Justice Subash B. Adi took to task Mr. Sripathy Rao for what it said was a frivolous complaint.

Stayed

Justice D.V. Shylendra Kumar on Friday, in an interim order, stayed all further proceedings by the Karnataka State Judicial House Building Society, including the allotment of sites. The order was passed on a petition by U. Narayana Ganga and S.G. Bhosle, Assistant Registrar, City Civil Court, Bangalore, and others who had challenged the non-allotment of sites to them by the society at Yelahanka and Thalgatpura.

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