Surinder singh kairon7/25/2023 Another reason for the displeasure of the Chief Minister, as alleged in the petition, related to certain orders which Petitioner 1 had passed as Commissioner, Patiala Division, in a revenue case known as the Sangrur case. Petitioner 1 was at the time Commissioner of Ambala, and he alleges that he was told by the Chief Minister that it was proposed to cite the Deputy Commissioner and the Deputy Inspector-General of Police as prosecution witnesses in the said case and it would be in the fitness of things that Petitioner 1 should also figure as a prosecution witness to this suggestion Petitioner 1 gave a somewhat dubious reply to the effect that his appearance as a prosecution witness might or might not help the prosecution. That case was transferred by this Court to a Special Judge, at Delhi, who commenced the trial sometime in May/June 1959. It is alleged that the Chief Minister was annoyed with Petitioner 1, because the latter did not show his readiness to give evidence for the prosecution in a case known as the Karnal Murder Case (later referred to as the Grewal case) in which one D.S Grewal, then Superintendent of Police, Karnal, and some other police officials were, along with others, accused of some serious offences. Briefly stated the case of the petitioners is that Petitioner 1 had the misfortune to incur the wrath of the Chief Minister of the State. We shall refer to some of these officials later in this judgment in relation to the part which they have played or are playing in those criminal cases.ΔΆ. They have moved this Court under Article 32 of the Constitution for the enforcement of their rights under Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution, which rights they say have been violated by the respondents who are the State of Punjab, Sardar Pratap Singh Kairon, Chief Minister thereof, and certain officials, police, administrative and magisterial, who have been conducting, or are connected with, the investigation or inquiry into a number of criminal cases instituted against the petitioners. The three petitioners before us are (1) R.P Kapur, a member of the Indian Civil Service, who before his suspension was serving as a Commissioner in the State of Punjab, (2) Sheila Kapur, his wife, and (3) Kaushalya Devi, his mother-in-law.
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