HC summons cop for issuing notice to lawyer

The high court has ordered a sub-inspector to appear before it on Wednesday for having interfered in a civil dispute by issuing a notice to a lawyer to produce property documents.

Justice B Veerappa on Tuesday summoned the sub-inspector from Bengaluru’s Vijayanagar police station on a writ petition filed by B Sudhakar, the lawyer who received the notice from the police officer.

Censuring the sub-inspector, Justice Veerappa noted that a police officer cannot issue a notice to a lawyer in a civil dispute. “The police officer should do his duty but it seems that he is doing something else,” the judge noted.