Gurugram news: An interesting case has come to light in Gurugram, Haryana, in which a former police commissioner has filed a defamation case against the judge. The former commissioner has demanded Rs 1 crore as damages from the judge. The next hearing in this case is to be held on November 21.
Actually, this case is related to a robbery of crores of rupees. According to the senior IPS officer, Additional District and Sessions Judge Amit Sehrawat had rejected the bail plea of former Deputy Commissioner of Gurugram Police Dheeraj Setia in February 2022 in connection with the robbery of crores of rupees. Then he had said that there is more to the story than what is visible.
Gangsters used to come to meet in the Commissionerate
The judge had said that the case seems suspicious based on the confession made by the main suspect in the case, Dr. Sachinder Jain Naval. Setia is accused of taking bribe to derail the investigation in the case. Especially considering that the gangsters used to come to meet him in Gurugram Commissionerate.
The comments were based on conjecture!
The court had also said that the investigators could not determine whether the entire process was carried out without the custody of the suspect with the consent of the former police commissioner. In the defamation suit, the senior officer argued that the judge’s remarks were based on conjecture. It had no judicial basis. He said that the comments about his alleged lack of information about the events were of personal nature. It had no relation to the decision of the bail application.
Crores were looted from the flat
The petition also claimed that these comments are not protected under the Judges Protection Act. Because they were not related to the official duties of the judge. The incident dates back to August 4, 2021, when gangster Lagarpuria’s henchmen broke into a private company’s flat and looted crores of rupees in cash. A special task force investigating the case has put this money at Rs 30-40 crore.
Offered Rs 2.5 crore and gold
Naval had claimed that he had given Setia Rs 2.5 crore worth of gold, cash and US dollar currency to hush up the case. However, he said Setia returned a major portion of the money and gold but kept some dollars with himself, saying the matter was not in his hands.
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