BHOPAL/JABALPUR: A single-judge bench of MP high court granted four-weeks to a petitioner who accused Indore police commissioner Harinarayana Chari Mishra of getting him booked for attempt to murder with a "malacious" intent. Mishra was SP, Jabalpur, then.
The petitioner Ajit Singh Anand said that on March 15, 2014, a case was registered against him and his brother at Gorakhpur police station in Jabalpur under bailable sections of IPC. His brother was released on bail but then SHO of the police station Vijay Punj on March 24, 2014, charged him under section 307 of the IPC as well and he clearly wrote in the police diary that section 307 of the IPC has been added against him at the behest of SP, Jabalpur, Harinarayana Chari Mishra.
Anand said that he had filed a petition in the high court earlier also, challenging addition of section 307 in the charges against him but the court asked him to raise the issue in the trial court. He also filed a petition seeking action against police officials who worked with "bias and malice" against him and here, too, the court asked him to present his side in the trial court.
The trial court eventually acquitted him of all charges but his application for action against police officials concerned was dismissed, making him to move the high court again. When the matter came up for hearing before the bench of Justice Rajeev Dubey, the petitioner sought time to present documents in support of his contention, which the judge conceded and fixed the case for hearing four weeks later.t
