PRAYAGRAJ: Taking a serious note of lodging of a large number of alleged false cases against a Dalit person at the instance of policemen, the Allahabad high court has ordered a CBI probe into some criminal cases registered at Mathura and Firozabad districts. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and Scheduled Caste (SC) Commission had taken notice of these cases.
Petitioners Sunit Kumar and another pleaded before the court that policemen were lodging false cases against them and their family members in order to pressure them to withdraw from a case where 35 police officials have been prima facie found guilty of lodging false cases and of stage managing false crime cases.
A division bench comprising Justice Suneet Kumar and Justice Syed Waiz Mian directed the principal secretary, home, UP, to transfer case no. 108/2022, under sections 363, 366 (kidnapping) of Indian Penal Code (IPC), registered at Rasoolpur of Firozabad district and other related cases to the CBI, New Delhi. A related case is also pending at police station highway, Mathura district, since 2014.
While directing to list this matter on November 11, the court directed that on this date, the CBI should apprise the court of the progress in the investigation.
According to petitioners, as many as 35 police personnel had been held guilty of being involved in lodging false cases and procuring manufactured evidence against the petitioners and their family. However, till date, no action was taken against those officials despite specific direction from the SC panel, the plea alleged.
During the court proceedings, the state counsel was unable to state as to whether disciplinary proceedings had been initiated against the accused police personnel.
Taking a serious note of it, the court observed, “…it is evident that the police personnel have been stage-managing to lodge false cases against the family members of the petitioners, of which notice has been taken by NHRC and SC Commission.”
In the present petition, the petitioners have alleged that the police officials of Mathura district have lodged a large number of fraudulent and false cases, either against the petitioners or his brother so as to pressure them to compromise in earlier cases.
