Hry DGP apologises for non-compliance of HC order to look into security request

Haryana director general of police (DGP) BS Sandhu on Thursday apologised before the Punjab and Haryana high court over his failure to comply with the court order on looking into the demand for providing security to a cop couple.

While husband Ashish is a head constable, wife Munesh Kumari is a sub-inspector in the Haryana Police.

Two FIRs were registered against the couple in Panipat in 2014 for illegal confinement, forgery and under the Arms Act. They had alleged that they have been falsely implicated in criminal cases and departmental enquiries ordered against them, because wife of the petitioner had conducted a raid on the house of a BJP MLA in 2014.

It was on November 28 that the high court had summoned Sandhu after it found that despite its orders, the representation for providing security by a Panipat cop was not looked into. The plea was submitted on October 3.

In a plea filed in July, the cop couple alleged threat to life and demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the matter.

In September, the high court had asked the petitioners to approach the DGP with their plea for granting protection to them. The allegations of frame-up in the petition are against five senior IPS officers and the BJP MLA.

The DGP told the court that he had forwarded the representation to the official concerned on the day it was received, but the dealing hand acted in a ‘negligent’ manner and did not act upon the matter in time.

The court was further told that Ashish has been posted at the police lines for six months so that he does not have to travel for his duty.

His wife, who is posted in Gurugram, has refused to take security. Their apprehensions of threat to life have been examined and it was found that it was “misconceived”, the court was told.

The DGP also told the court that Ashish was facing two departmental inquiries for his alleged misconduct.