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Tiruvannamalai SP M. Sudhakar connected Thursday issued a dismissal bid for 2 constables attached to Tiruvannamalai East Police Station, who were arrested for allegedly raping a young pistillate a fewer days ago.
Police sources said the constables were identified arsenic D. Suresh Raj and P. Sunder. An archetypal enquiry revealed that the survivor, a autochthonal of Andhra Pradesh, had travel to Tiruvannamalai on with her sister to present a consignment of vegetables and fruits to the communal marketplace successful the town.
While they were returning home, their conveyance was stopped by the 2 constables astatine a junction successful Endal colony connected the outskirts of the municipality for verification of documents. The constables took the subsister to a secluded spot and raped her. The incidental occurred connected September 30.
The subsister managed to scope the Bypass Road, wherever a fewer residents of Endal colony came to her assistance and sent her to the Government Medical College Hospital successful Tiruvannamalai town.
Following the incident, G. Dharmarajan, DIG (Vellore range); Mr. Sudhakar; and V. Satish Kumar, ASP, Tiruvannamalai, conducted an inquiry. The constables were arrested, lodged astatine the Central Prison successful Vellore, and suspended.
Article 311 invoked
On the instructions of Inspector-General of Police, North Zone, Asra Garg, the SP dismissed the constables by invoking provisions nether Article 311 of the Constitution, which deals with the “Dismissal, removal oregon simplification successful fertile of persons employed successful civilian capacities nether the Union oregon a State”.
While the Article says nary disciplinary enactment could beryllium taken without conducting an enquiry against the accused employee, and he/she beryllium fixed a tenable accidental of being heard successful respect of the charges, the SP issued the bid nether Clause 2(b), which states that the dismissal from work is justified erstwhile the competent authorization “empowered to disregard oregon region a idiosyncratic oregon to trim him successful fertile is satisfied that for immoderate reason, to beryllium recorded by that authorization successful writing, it is not reasonably practicable to clasp specified inquiry”.
The archetypal dismissal of a constabulary authoritative nether Article 311 was reported successful Madurai, wherever an Inspector was removed without an enquiry connected April 11, 2023 aft being arrested for grabbing ₹10 lakh from a businessman. The accused officer’s plea challenging her removal from work was dismissed by the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court.
