Pradeep Nandrajog, J.

1. On July 31, 1996, a police team comprising Inspector R.P.Tyagi, SI D.V.Gautam i.e. the petitioner, SI Shashi, HC Attar Chaudhary, HC Suresh Chand, Const.Naresh and Lady Const.Raj Kumari conducted a raid at Kashish Banquet Hall, Vikas Marg, New Delhi and claimed that six persons named Raghubir Singh, Sukhmal Jain, P.M.Mahesh, Lata, Alka and Reshma, were found there, involved in prostitution. Accordingly, FIR No.260/1996 for offences punishable under Sections 3, 4 and 5 of Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act, 1956 was registered against said persons and they were arrested in connection with the said FIR.

2. On September 10, 1996, i.e. nearly 40 days after the raid was conducted and FIR was registered, one Madhubala claiming to be the wife of accused Raghubir Singh, made a complaint against the petitioner, Inspector R.P.Tyagi and one Const.Dutt to Sh.Y.S.Dadwal, the then Additional Commissioner of Police, stating therein that the accused Lata, Alka and Reshma had come from Bombay to Delhi to perform at a stage show and were staying at Kashish Hotel in Delhi; on July 31, 1996, Lata, Alka and Reshma were leaving the Hotel to go to New Delhi Railway Stat