Former CBI DSP taken out of court after disrupting proceedings twice

A former CBI Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), accused of falsely implicating an Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer in a disproportionate assets case, had to be taken out of the court last month, after he interjected twice during the proceedings.

"Koi sarkari naukar ki nahi sunta (no one listens to a public servant),"Ramnish, now posted as a DIG, shouted in the court, while maintaining that allegations levelled against him were not sustainable. Metropolitan Magistrate Ritu Singh then directed him to maintain the decorum of the court and gave him the option to convey his objections through his counsel.

But then the accused interjected again and had to be taken out of the court. "I deem it fit for the conduct of uninterrupted proceedings of court to direct the accused, Ramnish, to remove himself from the courtroom,"the judge said, in the order dated June 3.

The accused, however, tendered an apology for his behaviour, following which the judge asked him to be careful in future.

The case, one of the oldest pending in the court, pertains to a complaint filed by IRS officer Ashok Kumar Agarwal, who had alleged that he was falsely implicated by the accused, in connivance with other CBI officers.

Agarwal had also alleged that a Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA) accused, against whom he was carrying out an investigation, had conspired with the CBI officers to register a false case against him.

He had moved the High Court, demanding quashing of the FIR lodged against him. The court ruled in his favour and ordered registration of two FIRs against the CBI officers, for fabricating documents.