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The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court connected Friday stayed the proceedings against IPS serviceman Balveer Singh, pending connected the record of the First Judicial Magistrate successful Tirunelveli, successful transportation with the Ambasamudram custodial torture case.
Justice Shamim Ahmed passed the bid portion proceeding the transgression revision petitions filed by Balveer Singh, the past Assistant Superintendent of Police of the Ambasamudram Sub-Division. In his petitions, helium said that erstwhile helium was successful complaint of Ambasamudram Sub-Division, the constabulary faced changeless problems successful handling cause peddlers indulging successful ganja smuggling. He said that since galore complaints were received from the nationalist astir anti-social elements indulging successful transgression acts, helium had to instrumentality stern enactment against those with transgression antecedents to safeguard the public. Since helium was a thorn successful the soma of the anti-social elements and vested interests recovered him an obstacle to transgression activities, mendacious allegations were levelled against him, helium said.
Mr. Singh said the proceedings tribunal erred gravely successful framing the charges against him successful Tamil without taking enactment that Tamil was not his autochthonal language. The proceedings tribunal ought to person ensured the proviso of an English mentation of the complaint expanse and witnesser statements successful the lawsuit earlier framing the charges against him, helium contended. The non-furnishing of the translated complaint expanse and witnesser statements by the proceedings tribunal resulted successful depriving him of the close to support himself effectively, arsenic guaranteed by the Constitution.
He said the impugned bid of the proceedings tribunal framing charges without putting him successful the cognize had deprived him of the close to implicit defence by afloat knowing the contents of the complaint expanse and relied upon documents. The tribunal directed the State authorities to record a antagonistic affidavit and posted the substance for proceeding successful January.
