Dama Seshadri Naidu, J.

1. The Controversy:

Petitioner Sony is the Co-ordinator of the West Coast Educational Trust, said to be a "collaborative institution" of the 5th respondent University. It imparts training in diploma programmes all over Kerala. Sony has approached this Court complaining of police brutality and also illegal confinement. He has arrayed two police officers in their personal capacity--eo nominee--as respondents 3 and 4. In the writ petition, especially in paragraph 7, he levelled grave allegations against those police officers:

"Yesterday, i.e. on 23-3-2017 at 12.30 noon the 4th respondent telephoned the petitioner and asked him and Director Anoop S. Krishnan to report in the police station. Anoop S. Krishnan is out of station and hence the petitioner went to the police station along [with] Advocate J. Renjith, Haripad and produced copy of Ext. P3 judgment. The same judgment was presented to the SI and CI several times during the last two months. But the 4th respondent illegally detained the petitioner in the police station from 2 pm to 5 pm. He used most filthy words against the petitioner and ordered to pay compensation of Rs. 3,00,000/- directly to the