Police chief served with contempt of court notice

NEW DELHI, May 20: A contempt of court notice has been issued against the Delhi Police Commissioner by the Metropolitan Magistrate of Ahmeda...

NEW DELHI, May 20: A contempt of court notice has been issued against the Delhi Police Commissioner by the Metropolitan Magistrate of Ahmedabad. The notice was issued for not taking the requisite action on a warrant issued by the court against the accused M/s Grover Sales and its partner at A/1, Naraina Industrial Estate, Phase II.

M/S Refnol Resins & Chemicals Ltd had filed a criminal complaint (U/s 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act) against M/S Grover Sales & Partner after which summons were served on the accused even though they were not present before the court.

Thereafter, the court issued a warrant against the accused and sent it to the Delhi police commissioner requesting that it be executed.

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In the complaint, the advocate for M/S Refnol Resins & Chemicals Ltd, R.C. Rajput, alleges that the warrant was not served the first time it reached the Delhi police commissioner’s office. Rajput further alleges that even after the complainant himself obtained warrant against the accused and sent it for execution to the police commissioner nothing came of it.

The Delhi Police neither served the warrant nor returned it served or unserved to the court.

It was then that Rajput placed an application for contempt of court against the Delhi police commissioner.

Meanwhile, Metropolitan Magistrate M.M. Soni granting the application issued a notice against the Delhi police commissioner ordering him to remain present before the court on May 20, 1998, and make clarifications on the allegation made in the application.

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It has also been alleged in the complaint that the Delhi Police was not co-operating “in executing the warrant against the accused… though the accused were residing within your (the CP’s) jurisdiction.”