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Police officials escape from City Courts in malkhana case
[DAWN] Three police officials beat feet from the premises of City Courts after a sessions court recalled their pre-arrest bail in a case pertaining to an incident of fire in malkhana (warehouse).Abdul Sattar Gopang, Mohammad Shakeel and Turab Ali ‐ the then in-charge of districts Central, South and East sections of malkhana respectively ‐ have been booked for their alleged negligence since hundreds of case properties of the three judicial districts kept in the malkhana were destroyed during a fire on the night of April 11. On Aug 3, the court had granted them interim bail against a surety bond of Rs50,000 each and asked them to join the investigation. After hearing arguments from both sides and examining the record of the case and police file, the additional district and sessions judge (South) Rajesh Chander Rajput dismissed the bail pleas and observed that admittedly all the three applicants/suspects being coppers were serving as in-charge of malkhana at City Courts, which stored valuable articles being case properties of three judicial districts and relevant records. He further observed that the complainant is also a police officer, who had nominated the applicants/suspects in the FIR with the allegation that they had deliberately set the malkhana on fire to extend undue favour to the accused involved in the cases, hence prima facie the case against the applicants/suspects was made out. Posted by: Fred 2018-08-10 |
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