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Restraining Mumbai Police from arresting five Gurgaon police officials involved in the alleged fake encounter of Gurgaon gangster Sandeep Gadoli in February at a Mumbai hotel, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the five petitioners to join investigations from June 15.
A team of Gurgaon Crime Branch headed by Sub-Inspector Pradyumna Yadav had on February 7 reached Mumbai to arrest Gadoli who was wanted in over two dozen cases. The cops had claimed that on entering Gadoli’s room at the Airport Metro Hotel in Andheri, when they asked him to surrender, he fired at them and they fired shots in self-defence killing Gadoli.
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A vacation bench headed by Justice M Jeyapaul, on a petition filed by Sub-Inspector Pradyumna Yadav and his colleagues, ordered, “Respondents No 4 to 6 (Mumbai Police officers) are directed not to embark upon coercive steps against the writ petitioners. The writ petitioners shall join the investigation from 15.6.2016 between 11.00 to 5.00 pm everyday.”
Last month, the Mumbai Police special investigation team had informed the Supreme Court that it found the encounter by Yadav and his four associates fake.
The petitioners had approached the High Court with a prayer to quash the order of their suspension passed
by Gurgaon Deputy Commissioner of Police on May 30 and also for transferring investigations into the case from Mumbai police to Haryana Police.
It was submitted that the original cause of action had arisen only within Haryana after petitioner Yadav had lodged an FIR on February 7 which was later registered as CR No.92 of 2016 at MIDC police station, Mumbai.
The court was informed that the petitioners were facing charges of a fake encounter and a threat of arrest.
