S A KHAN Vs. STATE OF HARYANA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This Writ Petition under Art. 32 of the Constitution of India is filed by the petitioner, Shri S. A. Khan, IPS, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Haryana, now under suspension seeking the following reliefs:

(2.) We would also like to proliferate the prefatory note of the writ petition for proper understanding the circumstances under which this petition has been filed:

(3.) The material facts which have led to the filing of the above CMP and IAs referred to in the prefatory note are given separately in the contemporaneous proceeding relating to the Contempt Petition No. 7/89. Suffice it to say that according to the petitioner, since the investigation of the criminal case registered in Sadar Police Station in FIR No. 372/87 dated 21-11-87 against Ch. Bhajan Lal (who was then the Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Government of India, at the time of the registration of the case and who is now the Chief Minister of Haryana State) and others on the complaint of one Dharam Pal under Ss. 161 and 165 of the Indian Penal Code and S. 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act of 1947 was under the direct charge and supervision of the writ petitioner Shri Khan, Ch. Bhajan Lal with mala fide intention of clogging and terminating the investigation has caused the impugned suspension order to be passed as against the petitioner by misusing his power and authority as Chief Minister.