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Petition against Police Commissioner dismissed

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has dismissed a petition seeking registration of an FIR against Delhi's Police Commissioner K.K. Paul for allegedly abetting a suicide by an Inspector last year.

Justice S.N. Dhingra said in his judgment: "The petitioner has failed to show that his complaint or suicide note prima facie discloses commission of a cognisable offence under Section 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code."

Quoting a ruling by the Supreme Court that the police are duty-bound to register an FIR if information relating to a cognisable offence is given to the officer in charge of a police station, Mr. Justice Dhingra said the complaint must disclose abetment of suicide by the person named therein before an FIR could be registered.

Petitioner Prashant, son of deceased Inspector Devinder Manchanda, had alleged that the suicide note left by his father said he was taking the extreme step due to criminal intimidation by the Police Commissioner over his (deceased's) failure to close a case against one of his (Police Chief's) friends as desired by him. He had alleged that he lodged a report with the Mukherjee Nagar police station on October 16 last year, four days after his father had committed suicide, but they refused to register a case.

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

Justice A.K. Sikri had in February this year refused to pronounce judgment on the petition, after having reserved it for more than two months.

Mr. Justice Sikri had also refused to cite reasons for his decision. Thereafter the High Court Chief Justice had transferred the matter to Mr. Justice Dhingra for hearing.

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