PETITIONER:

NIRANJAN SINGH & ANR.

Vs.

RESPONDENT:

PRABHAKAR RAJARAM KHAROTE & ORS.

DATE OF JUDGMENT10/03/1980 BENCH:

KRISHNAIYER, V.R.

BENCH:

KRISHNAIYER, V.R.

SEN, A.P. (J)

CITATION:

1980 AIR 785 1980 SCR (3) 15

1980 SCC (2) 559 ACT:

Criminal Procedure Code 1973, Section 439(1) (a)-

Enlargement on bail-Person to be accused of an offence and in custody-When is a person in custody.

Bail-Orders on bail application-Detailed examination of evidence, elaborate documentation to be avoided.

Suspension-Police Officers-Serious charges framed by a criminal court-Placing such officers under suspension-

Necessity of.

HEADNOTE:

The petitioner was the complainant in a criminal case where the accused were two sub-inspectors and eight police constables (respondents 1 to 10). The case of the complainant was that in pursuance to a conspiracy his brother was way laid by a police party consisting of these respondents. It was alleged that he was caught and removed from the truck in which he was travelling, tied with a rope to a tree and one of the sub-inspectors fired two shots from his revolver on the chest of the deceased at close range which killed him instantaneously. Having perpetrated this villainy the policemen va