The Gauhati High Court on Monday pulled up the Barpeta Districts and Sessions Court over its observations whereas granting bail to Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mawani for allegedly assaulting a lady police officer. The excessive courtroom stayed some observations stating that they “crossed limits” and demoralised the police power and the federal government of Assam.
“These observations (on the Assam Police) were made without there being any materials on record, on the basis of which the learned judge could have made such observations and consequently, this court stays the above quoted observations until further orders,” stated Justice Debashis Barua.
The Assam authorities had challenged the bail order in addition to the statement made by the Barpeta District and Sessions Judge Aparesh Chakraborty.
Some observations of Chakravarty together with the one the place he requested the High Court to direct “each and every police personnel engaged in law and order duty to wear body cameras, to install CCTV cameras in vehicles while arresting an accused or taking an accused to some place for recoveries of goods or other reasons, and also install CCTV cameras inside all police stations” have been stayed.
The native courtroom in Barpeta on Friday had come down closely on the authorities for searching for to ascertain a ‘police state’ and termed the molestation prices towards the Gujarat legistator as “manufactured.” Chakraborty had urged the excessive courtroom to direct the state police to “reform itself” over latest police excesses and “prevent registration of false FIR like the present case and the police personnel firing and killing or injuring accused which has become a routine phenomenon in the state.”
“No sane person will ever try to outrage the modesty of a lady police officer in presence of two male police officers and there is nothing in the record to hold that the accused Shri Jignesh Mevani is an insane person,” Aparesh Chakraborty had stated in his bail order.
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