13 police officers face contempt for failing to obey HC order

EXPRESSING concern over police officers not respecting court orders on registration of FIRs, holding investigation, filing final reports, and making the litigants run from pillar to post, the Madras High Court has summoned 13 police officers, including four deputy commissioners in connection with a contempt of court petition.

"Of late, this court comes across many an occasion that the orders have been consistently ignored by the officers by taking them lightly, which not only drives the litigant public to run from pillar to post, but also very much annoys the courts to see that at every stage the courts have to awake the officials from their deep slumber," Justice Jagadish Chandira said in an interim order recently passed in a contempt case.