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Judge refuses to pronounce judgment

Staff Reporter

Sends case file to Chief Justice of the High Court

NEW DELHI: Keeping his judgment in reserve for more than two months on a petition by the son of a Delhi Police inspector who had committed suicide allegedly due to criminal intimidation by the Police Commissioner of Delhi last year, Justice A. K. Sikri of the Delhi High Court on Friday refused to pronounce it. He also expressed his helplessness to cite reasons for his decision in the open court.

Mr. Justice Sikri said he had sent the case file to the Chief Justice of the High Court for marking it to some other judge for hearing it afresh.

It will now come up for hearing on March 12.

When counsel for the petitioner urged Mr. Justice Sikri to cite reasons for his decision, he told him that he would speak about it in his chamber.

According to the petition filed by deceased Inspector Devinder Manchanda's son Prashant, the suicide note left by him said that he was taking the extreme step due to criminal intimidation by the Police Commissioner over his failure to close a case against one of his (Police Chief's) friends as desired by him.

He further alleged that he had lodged a report with the Mukherjee Nagar police station in North Delhi on October 16, four days after his father had committed suicide, but they refused to register a case.

He urged the Court to issue directions to the police to lodge a case against the Police Chief for allegedly driving his father to commit suicide.

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