Allowed
Pramod Shrivastava v. State of Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh HCWPCR/132/2021
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
Police officers challenged adverse remarks about their investigation and the resulting departmental inquiry. The court expunged the remarks, which were made without a hearing and were unnecessary to decide the case, and quashed initiation of the inquiry and consequential proceedings. Both petitions were allowed to that extent.
What did the court decide?
Adverse remarks in paragraph 26 of the trial judgment expunged; initiation of the departmental inquiry based on Annexure P-5 and consequential proceedings quashed.