Colonel assault case: HC rejects Punjab Police inspector’s anticipatory bail
The Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom on Friday, 23 Might, rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Punjab Police inspector Ronnie Singh Salh in reference to the assault case of Military Colonel Pushpinder Singh Tub in Patiala greater than two months in the past.
Colonel Pushpinder Singh Tub had accused 12 Punjab Police personnel of assaulting him and his son over a parking dispute in Patiala outdoors a dhaba in March.
Tub had then alleged that the assailants — 4 inspector-rank officers of Punjab Police and their armed subordinates — attacked him and his son with out provocation, snatched his ID card and cell phone, and threatened him with a “pretend encounter” — all in public view and below CCTV digicam protection. The colonel suffered a damaged arm, whereas his son had a lower on his head within the incident.
“This vile, uncivilised, pitiless and brutal method is just not the style through which a police power must behave with its folks, anyplace, and particularly, in a democratic nation like ours,” Justice Anoop Chitkara noticed in his order.
This horrific, “gut-wrenching incident” showcases the entire misuse of police energy by these officers, he mentioned.
“…Even whether it is hypothetically assumed that the victims had wrongfully parked their automobile on the roadside, nonetheless the job of a regulation enforcement officer is to subject a challan (ticket) to that motorized vehicle which has violated any such regulation.
“It isn’t the job of any educated regulation enforcer, expert within the environment friendly use of power continuum to mete out unmerciful, livid beatings to a typical man on the drop of the hat and disrespect civilians, wielding their authority to ignore and disrupt regulation and order themselves,” Justice Chitkara noticed.
It seems that this was an unlucky case of gross misuse of emergency powers below the Police Act, the order reads.
The choose mentioned in his order that the prime obligation of the police is to not instil worry within the minds of public utilizing unwarranted power however to safe observance of regulation and order and to carry that aim to fruition, a prerequisite is adherence to and respect for authorized framework itself.
“It is not uncommon information that almost all of the folks, particularly the poor, downtrodden, and illiterate, have been deeply conditioned to be afraid of the police, harbouring a worry of them within the hearts of hearts. It’s behaviour like that as seen within the current case, exhibited by a skinny minority of officers, which evokes such worry and terror and is exemplary of incidents fuelling such narratives,” he noticed.
Quite the opposite, the aim of the police power is to impartially, with out worry or favour, and with out biases, care for its folks, with sensitivity, affection, empathy and kindness on the one hand; whereas being agency, sincere and astute on the opposite, utilizing cheap power when it’s inevitable to regulate hooliganism, he mentioned.
