Allahabad, Jan 28: Voicing "extreme disquiet" over
"close nexus" between police and "criminalised politicians and
their goons", the Allahabad High Court has rejected petitions
of the wife of BSP MLA Shekhar Tiwari and two others seeking a
stay on their arrests in connection with the murder of a PWD
engineer.
Rejecting the petitions yesterday, a division bench
comprising Justice Amar Saran and Justice R N Misra observed
that "at this stage the court cannot reach an inference that
there is no prima facie material against the accused so as to
justify quashing the FIR or the investigation or to stay the
arrests of the petitioners".
The court, however, directed that "investigation and
trial in this case be concluded within six months".
PWD engineer Manoj Kumar Gupta was beaten to death
allegedly by the MLA and his supporters who had dragged him
out of his house in the early hours of December 24, 2008. The
body was brought to the Dibiyapur police station by the
alleged assailants.
The court also remarked "we must record our extreme
disquiet at a feature which has again been revealed in the
case, viz, the close nexus of police officials with
criminalised politicians and their goons".
Bureau Report
