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Show cause notice for Delhi police chief

The Delhi high court on Friday issued show cause notices to Delhi Police Commissioner T R Kakkar and three other senior police officers on a plea seeking the arrests of a local legislator and his three brothers-in-law for alleged cheating.

The four are accused of cheating Labh Singh, a resident of the Samaipur Badli village in the capital.

A division bench comprising Justices Devinder Gupta and N G Nandi directed the police chief, deputy commissioner of police (north west), station house officer of the Samaypur Badli police station and the investigating officers of the crime branch to reply to the notice by April 30, the next date of hearing.

The petitioner alleged that Jitendra Kumar alias 'Kallu bhaiya', an Independent MLA in the Delhi assembly, and his associates had sold him government land measuring 200 square yards in the Swaroop Nagar extension-III on Burari road for Rs 40,000, claiming it to be their own. Pieces of government land were also sold to hundreds of others, he said.

He urged the court to direct the police commissioner to arrest the accused and their associates, and properly execute the non-bailable warrants issued by a trial court.

Labh Singh had carried out some construction work on the land, but the local authorities demolished the structure terming it as 'illegal construction'. They also fenced the land.

The petitioner then got an FIR registered in the Samaypur Badli police station against the MLA and his brothers-in-law under section 420 of the Indian Penal Code. The police filed a chargesheet before a trial court on December 27, 1994.

The court had been issuing non-bailable warrants against Kallu bhaiya for the last four months, but the police have not executed the warrants.

Awasthi said that the MLA and his henchmen were threatening the petitioner.

UNI

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