Karnataka government gives clean chit to police department in Mangaluru police shooting of Dec 2019
Police had shot down two people while firing at anti-CAA protesters
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government on Friday gave a clean chit to the police department in the Karnataka High Court in the infamous Police firing incident on anti-CAA protest in the city on December 19, 2019.
The High Court division bench led by Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court Justice Rituraj Avasthi was hearing the matter on Friday.
The government also submitted the report of magisterial inquiry into the matter. The report was submitted in a closed envelope to the court.
The advocate representing the government stated that the government accepted the report submitted by the magistrate. The Bench later postponed the hearing while directing the government to submit an affidavit for the same.
Two people identified as Nausheen and Jaleel were killed in police firing on December 19, 2019, on the anti-CAA protesters near state bank in the city. The incident had received severe backlash from organizations and activists adding that the cops had misused their powers.
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SC imposes Rs 5 lakh costs on Centre for filing frivolous petition
New Delhi, Apr 25: The Supreme Court has imposed costs of Rs 5 lakh on the Centre for challenging a Meghalaya High Court order, holding it was "sheer abuse" of the process of law.
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Satish Chandra Sharma said there was no occasion or justification for the Union of India to have challenged the order by way of a Special Leave Petition.
"The present petition is sheer abuse of the process of law. The petitioners are cautioned not to file such frivolous petitions in future.
"We are not inclined to interfere with the impugned judgment(s) and order(s) of the High Court. Accordingly, the Special Leave Petition is dismissed with costs for the reason that before the High Court counsel for the petitioner (UoI) submitted that the matter was squarely covered by a previous decision and, accordingly, the High Court had disposed of the matter on the statement of the counsel for Union of India," the bench said.
The top court was hearing an appeal against the High Court order which upheld a Central Administrative Tribunal judgement.
The High Court had disposed of the matter after noting the Central government's submission that a similar plea had been rejected earlier.
"We, accordingly, impose a fine of Rs.5,00,000 to be paid by the petitioners which shall be deposited in Account of the Armed Forces Battle Casualties Welfare Fund, Canara Bank, Branch South Block, Defence Headquarters, within eight weeks...
"After depositing the said amount in the aforesaid fund, the petitioners to file proof of such deposit with the Registry of this Court within a week thereafter," the bench said.
