PCA recommends disciplinary action against SHO,Head Constable

The order was passed on the complaint of Santokh Singh,a driver working at Kiran Taxi Stand,Sector 52. Santokh had alleged that on July 6,2011,around 8.30 pm,six assailants in five different taxis reached the stand and started thrashing him. Taxi stand owner Manpreet Singh managed to escape. The accused ran away when Santokh raised the alarm. A Police Control Room vehicle rushed Santokh to GMCH-32. He suffered severe injuries and lost four front teeth in the incident.

The main grievance of the complainant was that police acted with a malafide intention and registered a case against four accused only and that too after three months.

“It appears that the SHO of police station Sector 36 has acted in an arbitrary and malafide manner by not registering FIR for three months. The incident had occurred on July 6 and the FIR has been registered on October 5,” reads the order.

The order also states that the complainant had named six persons as assailants and given specific numbers of the taxis in which they had arrived,but the case was registered against four persons only as explained by Investigating Officer (IO) Head constable Gurdeep Singh. Gurdeep had told the PCA that a challan had been produced against three persons in a local court while the fourth accused was untraceable.