Week-long punishment: Thatta SHO sent to jail for contempt of court

The judge ordered jail authorities to produce the policeman before the court on January 2.

KARACHI:

A judicial magistrate sent on Thursday the Thatta SHO to jail for seven days during the proceedings of a contempt of court notice against him.

He was arrested and produced before the court by the Nazimabad DSP and the additional IG, who appeared before the court as a representative for the Sindh inspector general of police.

The judicial magistrate in district Central, Ghulam Murtaza Metlo, sent Thatta SHO Ashok Kumar to jail after he was produced before the court in a contempt case. On the court's order, the senior officials took off the badges of Kumar before sending him to jail till January 2. Kumar was earlier served with the contempt of court notices for not complying with the repeated orders of the court. The court had summoned Kumar several times. He, however, did not turn up and the courts finally issued the notice.

Kumar, being an investigation officer, was required to produce the prosecution witnesses in a case pertaining to robbery. He, however, repeatedly failed to appear before the court and to produce the witnesses for the last three years.

The judge ordered the jail authorities to produce the policeman before the court on January 2 when the court would take up the proceedings.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 28^th, 2013.