JOIN USThe Delhi High Court on Wednesday decided to monitor the probe into the ongoing police investigation on corruption charges faced by policemen and MCD officials.
The policemen and the MCD officials are allegedly accused of allowing bootlegging for hefty bribes. The court was upset with the police’s failure to probe into the matter.
"There is total lack of action on the part of Delhi Police and the courts are forced to monitor such cases,” a division bench of acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said while deciding to monitor the probe.
Expressing anguish that the police did little in the name of probing a case, the bench ordered the police to submit to it the original file pertaining to the case.
"They are going to shield their own people as the allegations were against their own officials. There seems to be no serious effort to complete the probe," the bench said.
The police in its report, in response to the court's July 2010 order, had submitted that 34 policemen and seven MCD officials were identified but others were untraceable.
The court had ordered the probe on a plea by Chetan Sharma, who had filmed several policeman and MCD officials taking bribes from various bootleggers to let them run their illicit business with impunity.
Sharma's counsel Manish Khanna told the court that police have failed to register even a case against the officials in compliance with the court’s earlier order.
Despite several representations from his client, nothing has been done and his client