Judgement

NATARAJAN, J.:- This appeal by special leave is by a Gazetted Police Officer to seek expunction of certain adverse remarks passed against him by the High Court of Kerala in an order passed with reference to two Criminal miscellaneous petitions filed by respondents 2 and 3 herein without issuing any notice to him and without hearing him.

2. The somewhat unusual circumstances in which the appellant has been made the victim of strictures by the High Court may now be looked into. One Chandrasekaran Pillai residing within the limits of Karunagapally Police Station was charged under S. 302, I.P.C., for having committed the murder of his wife Komalavalli by first beating her and kicking her and then hanging her in order to make it appear that it was a case of suicide. The accuseds son aged about 12 years and a neighbour claimed to have. witnessed the beating as well as the accused dragging the deceased to the western side of the house. A little later the son made bold to go into the house and found his mother hanging with a noose round her neck. He raised alarm and the neighbours including his maternal uncle came to the house and cut the rope and rendered first aid unsuccessfully