The Bombay High court asked the Maharashtra govt to consider handing over the investigation into the police firing on farmers at Maval in August to CID if no police officer was willing to probe the case.
The Bombay High court today asked the Maharashtra government to consider handing over the investigation into the police firing on farmers at Maval in August to CID if no police officer was willing to probe the case.
The court was hearing two Public Interest Litigations (PIL) filed seeking handling over the case to CID or CBI.
"If no officer is ready to probe the case then consider handing over the probe to the Crime Investigation Department (CID)," said justice SA Bobade.
One of the PILs was filed by social activist Balasaheb Jambulkar, who claimed to be present at Maval when the firing took place and according to him the police chased the people and shot at them. While other PIL was filed by IG Khandelwal on whose complaint an FIR was registered in the Maval court.
Khandelwal's lawyer Rajeev Pandey argued that no police officer was willing to investigate the case and said that after one Deputy Superintendent of Police expressed inability to probe the case on medical ground, the Superintendent of Police, Pune (rural) handed over the case to another DSP.
The police on August 9 had fired on the protesting farmers who had gathered to oppose the government's decision to lay a closed pipe line that would go through their fields to supply water from Pavna dam to the limits of Pimpri-Chinchwad municipal corporation in Pune.
After the firing incident the then SP of Pune (rural) Sandeep Karnik was transferred. He is presently the DCP in Mumbai.
According to sources, top police officers are reluctant to investigate the case due to its political sensitivity.
The case was adjourned till December 8.
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