Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 18: In the much publicized Choudhary Nagar Singh interrogation CD case, Special Municipal Magistrate, Jammu, V S Bhou has directed summoning of then SSP Jammu, Basant Rath and SP Mubasir Latifi, Incharge Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the Amandeep murder case, for tendering their explanation.
The case where the interrogation of the accused in the police lock-up has been recorded in the CD is under enquiry under Section 202 CrPC before Special Municipal Magistrate Jammu.
After hearing Advocates Rajesh Kotwal and Mandeep Singh, the Special Municipal Magistrate directed that notices be sent to both the officers through IGP Jammu Zone. The Court further directed that the notices be handed over to Senior Prosecuting Officer, Rohit Gupta for onward transmission to IGP Jammu for compliance.
Choudhary Nagar Singh, who is facing trial in the much publicized Amandeep Singh murder case and presently lodged in Sub-District Jail Hira Nagar, has filed this complaint under Section 500, 503 RPC and under Section 66-A Information Technology Act.
In the complaint, he has mentioned that police officers namely Basant Rath, then SSP Jammu, Mubassir Latifi, then SP, Abdul Rouf Lone, Kamaljeet Singh and Hardeep Singh Gill subjected the complainant to unprecedented torture, both physical and mental, while he was in custody of the police for a criminal case under FIR No 247/2009 under Sections 302/201/409/120-B RPC at Police Station Gandhi Nagar,
The complainant has submitted that to his surprise and shock police officers instead of confining themselves to the contours of the allegations against him in the said case, were bent upon to extort his confession with respect to certain other cases not known to the complainant. In the process, they (police officers) used abusive language not only against the complainant but also against his wife, his daughter-in-law and advocates being engaged by the complainant.
According to the complaint, all this was done willfully by all the police persons knowingly that such false and concocted imputations were bound to harm the reputation of the complainant. In furtherance of their conspiracy to publicly defame the complainant, the police officers without the consent of the complainant made a video film exhibiting complainant’s custodial interrogation and thereafter transmitted the same to a number of persons on their cell-phone and YOUTUBE.
The video film having been viewed by a number of persons on their cell phones and internet, has lowered the reputation and image of the complainant in the estimation of the right thinking members of the society. It has further been submitted that all the police persons in the complaint are guilty and have exposed themselves to an in-evitable criminal liability and their prosecution and conviction under law.
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