Chandigarh/ Punjab (May 02, 2014): It is learnt that the Punjab and Haryana High Court did not find any merit in former DGP (Prisons) Shashi Kant’s petition seeking anticipatory bail. According to media reports Shashi Kant’s petition, seeking blanket anticipatory bail in any criminal case to be registered against him in the state, failed to find favour with the Punjab and Haryana High Court on May 01.
Shashi Kant’s plea was dismissed as withdrawn by Justice Tejinder Singh Dhindsa.
Shashi Kant, former DGP Punjab [File Photo]
As the petition came up for hearing, Justice Dhindsa asked Shashi Kant’s counsel to come up with a specific instance in which he might be arrested. As the counsel could not come up with any such information, he offered to withdraw the petition, following which his petition was dismissed as withdrawn.
The petition was filed about a week after Shashi Kant, who is also a leader of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) named some Punjab politicians of being involved in the drug trade in Punjab. The names were made public at a press conference in Jalandhar.
According to former top cop, the names of the politicians were mentioned in the list of people involved in protecting drug peddlers.
The list, as per Shashi Kant, was prepared by the Punjab Police’s intelligence wing in 2007, when he was the ADGP (intelligence).
The petition added that on January 10, 2014 Punjab Police officials attempted to abduct him. A daily-diary report was lodged in a Chandigarh police station.
The former DGP said people in power and some others were unhappy with his crusade against the drug racket in the state. Since his revelation about politicians had ruffled feathers, he, along with his family, was living under constant threat not only to his life and liberty, but also in the form of implication in some “created” case, Shashi Kant added.