The report had been submitted in a sealed cover before the division bench of Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice AR Joshi who today posted the matter for hearing on August 17.
The Bombay High Court today went through the report filed by Maharashtra DGP K Subramaniam who conducted an inquiry against seven senior police officers, including ATS chief Rakesh Maria, for allegedly 'shielding' a fellow IPS officer accused in a 'cheating' case.
The report had been submitted in a sealed cover before the division bench of Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice AR Joshi who today posted the matter for hearing on August 17.
After going through the findings, the judges asked public prosecutor Revati Dere to address the court on the report submitted by the DGP.
The bench also asked the prosecutor to make a copy of the report and submit it to Registrar (Judiciary). The judges also directed Dere not to show the report to anyone as it is confidential.
The report was filed by the DGP three months after the high court had ordered a probe into the role of seven IPS officers on a petition filed by Chitra Salunkhe, former Vice Principal of Siddharth Law College in South Mumbai.
The petitioner alleged that the officers "shielded" their colleague KL Bishnoi, a 1985 batch IPS officer, who is accused of clearing final year LLB examination with the help of the then acting principal IA Inamdar, without appearing for the practical examination held on March 12, 2005.
On Salunkhe's complaint against the duo, the seven IPS officers had conducted an inquiry into the matter.
Salunkhe later approached the high court seeking action against the senior cops alleging that they submitted "false" reports to their superiors in order to "protect" Bishnoi.
Besides Maria, the other officers facing inquiry are Additional Director Generals of Police Pankaj Gupta and Mohan Rathod, Additional Commissioner of Police Sanjay Saxena and three Deputy Commissioners of Police - Naval Bajaj, Brijesh Singh and Vishwas Nangre-Patil.
According to the petition, Mumbai University had appointed Salunkhe as an examiner for conducting practical examination on March 12, 2005. Before the examination she received a typewritten chart which included the list of all the 15 candidates supposed to attend the test under her supervision.
To her surprise she found Bishnoi's name handwritten on the list and, although he had not signed the chart for confirming his appearance, exam scores were marked against his name.
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