Saturday, April 12, 2008

HC tells cops off civil disputes

By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, April 10: The High Court directed that the Director-General of Police should bestow his attention to the complaints against police interference in civil disputes.
Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy, while disposing of a petition filed by one K. Mallamma of Karimnagar, observed that "in recent times this court has been flooded with complaints of the nature as raised in the present petition. Invariably, the response from the police, after receipt of notice from this court is blanket denial of the allegations of their interference in the civil dispute."
The judge also observed that the court cannot take judicial notice of rising instances of interference by the police in civil disputes. The court remarked that "unless this tendency is curbed before it reaches menacing proportions, the whole society would be in great jeopardy."

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