Kerala High Court blasts police for arresting P Krishnadas
The High Court orally criticised the police and said it cannot act in accordance with the public outcry.
Kochi: The Kerala High Court has criticised the police for arresting P. Krishnadas, Chairman and Managing Trustee of the Nehru Group of Institutions, in connection with the case of assault on a student of the Nehru Academy of Law College. Krishnadas moved the court on Monday seeking anticipatory bail, but the cops arrested him. Counsel for Krishnadas argued that the police were attempting to circumvent the anticipatory bail granted to him in the suicide of Jishnu Pranoy case. The counsel argued that non-bailable offence was not charged against him in the initial stage.
The High Court orally criticised the police after it came to know that non-bailable offence was incorporated to arrest the accused. Pointing out that police cannot act in accordance with the public outcry, the court posted the case to Tuesday for detailed hearing. The court observed that it would be forced to make some stringent comments if the police conducted such probes. The police officers who had made false charges would not be let off, the court said. Krishnadas argued that the case was an afterthought and manipulated by the investigation agency in the Jishnu Prony murder case.
The attempt of the police was to get over the anticipatory bail granted in the Jishnu case. Though the petitioner had complied with the bail conditions, he was not questioned or asked to report before the investigation officer. The police were trying to sabotage the bail order passed by the High Court. Meanwhile, the court adjourned the hearing of the anticipatory bail petitions filed by Sanjith Viswanathan, suspended PRO of Nehru College of Engineering and Research Centre, Pambady, in the Jishnu Pronoy case, to Thursday.