Single-judge Justice SM Subramaniam directed the Commissioner to then distribute the amount equally among the seven police personnel against whom the petitioner, an ‘illegal’ children’s home, had made false allegations.
The Court in its order passed on November 18 also deprecated the “growing trend” of levelling false allegations against police personnel.
“Growing trend of accusing the police personnel on registration of criminal case by the offenders at no circumstances can be tolerated by the Courts. Practice of filing writ petitions against the police officials unnecessarily without any substance is increasing in recent days. Whenever the police officials initiate actions under law and by following the procedures, in order to escape from the clutches of law, these offenders are filing writ petitions against the police officials with false allegations,” the order said.
The observations were made while dismissing a petition filed by a city resident who runs an orphanage. The petitioner had alleged that the police had raided his orphanage without following due procedure and breached his rights.
The State government, however, told the Court that the said orphanage was being run illegally. A child had been kept there illegally and following a habeas corpus case filed by the child’s mother, a team of seven police officers had gone there and rescued the child.
The present petition, thus, was a case of malafide litigation, the State told the Court.
Source: Barandbench
