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Noida case: contempt plea against police

Staff Reporter

NOIDA: A day after Rajesh Talwar was remanded to three-day police custody by a local court here in the double murder case, a contempt petition was filed against the police on Wednesday claiming that they had not adhered to the court direction that a lawyer could be present during the dentist’s interrogation.

“Dr. Talwar has been taken to some undisclosed location and we have not been informed of his whereabouts. We called up Noida SSP Satish Ganesh in the morning, but we were not provided any information about him. We do not know where Dr. Talwar has been taken from the Dasna jail in Ghaziabad,” said advocate Mahender Pratap Singh, who is representing the dentist in the case.

“The court had categorically stated in its order on Tuesday that a lawyer can be present during the interrogation at an appropriate distance. The Noida police move is in gross violation of the court directions and we have thus filed the contempt petition,” said Mr. Singh.

The petition was filed before Chief Judicial Magistrate Ashok Kumar Singh, who has fixed May 30 as the date of hearing. The court had allowed the presence of a lawyer during Dr. Talwar’s interrogation after defence lawyers expressed apprehension that the dentist could be tortured in police custody.

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