Man forced to chant Jai Shri Ram: Probe transferred to another station due to ‘local politician’s influence’

The petitioner, Asif Ahmed Shaikh, was allegedly manhandled by radical of “30 to 40 students” erstwhile helium was returning  from Kankavli to Mumbai connected a bid on with his woman and daughters connected January 19, 2024.

Asif (37), successful his complaint, had claimed that erstwhile the radical of co-passengers was singing loudly and creating nuisance, helium asked them not to bash truthful arsenic his daughters were getting disturbed.

One of the students past forced Asif to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and erstwhile helium refused to bash so, helium was allegedly abused, manhandled and was threatened with dire consequences,  the complainant alleged.

He had filed an FIR astatine Panvel constabulary station, which was aboriginal transferred to Kankavli police.

Later connected January 25, arsenic per the plea,  Shaikh and his woman were detained for three-four hours implicit a cross- FIR registered allegedly astatine the behest of a section person astatine the Kankavli constabulary presumption and helium was asked to retreat his archetypal ailment and was abused by officers.

After the mates returned from the constabulary station, the plea said, Asif was beaten by respective radical astatine his autochthonal place, aft which helium had registered an FIR astatine Kankavli constabulary presumption against 12 persons who are suspected to beryllium supporters of the politician.

The petitioner, done advocator Gautam Kanchanpurkar, submitted that probe by Kankavali constabulary presumption was biased and was influenced by the section politician. He said the officers astatine Panvel constabulary excessively were not adjacent anxious to initiate his ailment and were trying to support the accused.

The plea sought enquiry against the said constabulary officials of Kankavali and Panvel done a high-ranking serviceman and due enactment beryllium taken against them.

During an earlier proceeding of the plea, the precocious tribunal had asked  the authorities lawyer if the probe tin beryllium transferred to immoderate different constabulary presumption “to guarantee fairness”.

In response, Additional Public Prosecutor Prajakta P Shinde submitted that successful presumption of allegations made by petitioners against Kankavali officers, the Superintendent of Police (SP) has transferred the probe to Kudal Police presumption Wednesday and the aforesaid volition beryllium supervised by Deputy SP of Sawantwadi.

The authorities lawyer besides submitted that the CCTV footage of applicable clip from Kankavali and Panvel constabulary stations were preserved and the aforesaid volition beryllium made portion of the chargesheet, which the tribunal accepted and disposed of the plea.

The seat of Justices Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Neela K Gokhale, which was proceeding the plea, besides noted that constabulary extortion granted to the petitioner by the tribunal connected May 16 and continued from clip to clip stood withdrawn.

The tribunal persused a study of high-ranking constabulary officers stating that determination was nary menace cognition to the petitioner anymore.

It besides said that the petitioner tin marque an exertion successful aboriginal if request arises.