JUDGEMENT
VINOD PRASAD, J. -
(1.) SMT . Leena Katiyar Informant of crime number 467 of 2007, under sections
364A, 302,201, IPC, Police station Kotwali Fatehgarh. District Farrukhabad
has invoked our extra ordinary
jurisdiction, under Article 226 of The
Constitution Of India, with the prayers to
issue a writ of mandamus commanding
respondents no.1 to 8 to submit charge
sheet against Sunil Katheria and Haplu,
respondents no.9 and 10 in the aforesaid
crime number, relating to SST No. 40 of
2007, pending before Special Judge, (DAA), Farrukhabad. Second prayer
made is to issue a writ of mandamus
commanding the aforesaid respondents 1
to 8 to send the tapes and CDs recorded
between 22.4.2007 and 1.5.2007 by the
Superintendent of Police and Additional
Superintendent of Police for sound
spectrography to voice recording experts.
Another payer is to issue a writ of
mandamus commanding those very
respondents to record voice sample of the
accused persons through Special Judge
(DAA), Farrukhabad for being compared
and examined through sound
Spectrography from the taps and CDS
mentioned above.
(2.) RELEVANT facts are that the son of the informant Madhusudan @ Madhu is
allegated to have been kidnapped and
murdered for ransom by the accused
persons who are eight in number
including respondents no. 9 and 10. Police
investigated the offence and to decipher
the crime resorted to electronic
surveillances to tap the phone
conversations between informant and
accused persons and also inter-se between
them. After completion of investigation
the police submitted the charge sheet
against the accused for the
aforementioned offences on the basis of
which SST No. 40 of 2007 was registered
in the court of Special Judge (DAA).
Farrukhabad which is still pending.
Father of one of the accused Happy @ Shivam, who now has been
declared to be a Juvenile, rued false
implication of his minor son and, being a
person of SC/ST caste, approached SC/ST
Commission who recommended for
further investigation and·on such a
recommendation Director General Of
Police and other Higher Police officers
ordered for further investigation by
Special Enquiry Cell. The investigating
officer of Special Enquiry Cell
approached the court of Special Judge
(DAA) Farrukhabad. Seeking his
approval for further investigation and the
court approved the same vide it's order
dated 30.5.2007 and therefore further
investigation in the crime is ongoing
under section 173 (8) Cr.P.C. It is
important to note that order for further
investigation has been challenged by the
informant petitioner in connected writ
petition no. 7318 of 2008 Smt. Leena
Katiyar versus State of U.P. and others
which is being disposed off to day itself
by passing a separate order for the sake of
convenience. Since the police did not
charge sheet respondents no. 9 and 10
Sunil Katheria and Haplu hence informant
has filed the present writ petition.
(3.) WE have heard Sri Murlidhar learned Senior counsel as well as Sri A.N.
Srivastava in support of this writ petition
and Sri V.P. Srivastava, learned Senior
counsel assisted by Sri Lav Srivastava and
learned AGA in opposition and have gone
through the averments made in this writ
petition.;
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