Man framed in rape case seeks Rs.4.62 crore relief (Lead)
March 28th, 2011 - 11:24 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, March 28 (IANS) The Delhi High Court Monday issued notice to the Delhi Police chief and the Delhi government on the plea of a man seeking compensation of Rs.4.62 crore for being framed in a rape case five years ago.
The petitioner has also sought a Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry into his implication and custodial torture in the case.
Justice Ajit Bharihoke said: “Issue notice to the respondent number 1 (Delhi government) and respondent 2 (police chief) and list the matter on July 8.”
The court also issued a notice to the then station house officer of the Hari Nagar police station Om Wati Mallik.
The court observation came while hearing the plea of Niranjan Kumar Mandal, a resident of West Bengal who was working in a pathological laboratory here in 2006, who was framed in the 2005 rape in west Delhi’s Mayapuri.
He approached the court alleging that he suffered custodial torture in the case.
The lower court acquitted him in the Mayapuri rape case, after he had spent four years and two months in jail, for want of sufficient evidence. But police again detained him in connection with another rape which took place at Dhaula Kuan in 2010, the petitioner said.
He was released on the direction of the high court after his wife, a nurse, filed a petition.
Counsel Wills Mathews, appearing for Mandal, said that his client was forced to leave the national capital due to alleged threat to his life from police.
He alleged that Mandal was detained again and again by police on the pretext of questioning and was tortured in the lock up.
A woman was abducted, raped in a moving car and later dumped near the Mayapuri chowk in west Delhi in July 2005. Mandal was arrested in 2006.
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