ANI | | Posted by Yamini C S
A neighborhood courtroom on Friday slapped a high-quality of ₹5 lakh on the police for arresting the fallacious particular person in a POCSO case within the Mangaluru district of Karnataka.
The District Second Extra FTSC POCSO Court docket introduced the decision and requested the Inspector of Police Revathi and Sub-Inspector of Police Rosamma PP to pay the high-quality quantity from their salaries for arresting the fallacious particular person of the identical title because the accused and conserving him in judicial custody for nearly a 12 months, in a POCSO case.
The quantity might be handed over to the sufferer as compensation.
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The choose ordered the Principal Secretary of the Karnataka Authorities’s Dwelling Division to take authorized motion towards each cops.
An individual named Naveen was the accused within the case of rape of a minor that befell within the Mangaluru rural police station restrict.
The sufferer lady had talked about about accused Naveen in her assertion earlier than the Justice of the Peace and didn’t seek advice from the title as Naveen Sequera. In accordance with the lady’s assertion, Sub-Inspector Rosamma P.P had registered a case beneath the POCSO Act towards the accused named Naveen and handed over the additional investigation to Police Inspector Revathi.
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Through the investigation, Mangaluru Rural Police Station ASI Kumar arrested Naveen Sequeira as a substitute of the accused Naveen and produced him earlier than the investigating officer.
Police inspector Revathi, who performed the investigation, made an individual named Naveen Sequeira an accused and submitted a cost sheet to the courtroom.
The counsels who argued for the sufferer delivered to the discover of the courtroom that each one paperwork submitted to the courtroom point out the title of the accused as Naveen solely. The age has been talked about as 25 to 26 years.
It was delivered to the discover of the courtroom that the arrested Naveen Sequera’s age is 47 years. The counsels argued that the police had arrested the fallacious particular person and made him bear judicial custody for one 12 months.