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| Madurai police commissioner booked |
| Madurai police commissioner booked for rights violation
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| INDIA
, 1-July-2011
4:21:44 AM |
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The Madras High Court has ordered the home secretary to register a case against city police commissioner P Kannappan and five other policemen on charges of malicious prosecution and human rights violation during their tenure in Ramanathapuram district in 1997.
The direction was given on Thursday by justice R S Ramanathan of the Madurai bench of the court.
The court had allowed a petition filed by S Krishnamurthy seeking action against police officials for allegedly torturing the petitioner and his friend Palani to confess that they had murdered a girl, who was found alive in 2002, five years after the case was registered against them.
The court slammed as "condemnable" the action of the CBI, which had recommended only departmental action despite holding the officials concerned guilty of human rights violations.
The agency had taken up the case in 2007 on the orders of the High Court following a similar petition filed by the petitioner
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