LEENA KATIYAR Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) SMT . Leena Katiyar Informant of crime number 467 of 2007, under sections 364A, 302,201, IPC, Police station Kotwali Fatehgarh. District Farrukhabad has invoked our extra ordinary jurisdiction, under Article 226 of The Constitution Of India, with the prayers to issue a writ of mandamus commanding respondents no.1 to 8 to submit charge sheet against Sunil Katheria and Haplu, respondents no.9 and 10 in the aforesaid crime number, relating to SST No. 40 of 2007, pending before Special Judge, (DAA), Farrukhabad. Second prayer made is to issue a writ of mandamus commanding the aforesaid respondents 1 to 8 to send the tapes and CDs recorded between 22.4.2007 and 1.5.2007 by the Superintendent of Police and Additional Superintendent of Police for sound spectrography to voice recording experts. Another payer is to issue a writ of mandamus commanding those very respondents to record voice sample of the accused persons through Special Judge (DAA), Farrukhabad for being compared and examined through sound Spectrography from the taps and CDS mentioned above.

(2.) RELEVANT facts are that the son of the informant Madhusudan @ Madhu is allegated to have been kidnapped and murdered for ransom by the accused persons who are eight in number including respondents no. 9 and 10. Police investigated the offence and to decipher the crime resorted to electronic surveillances to tap the phone conversations between informant and accused persons and also inter-se between them. After completion of investigation the police submitted the charge sheet against the accused for the aforementioned offences on the basis of which SST No. 40 of 2007 was registered in the court of Special Judge (DAA). Farrukhabad which is still pending.

(3.) WE have heard Sri Murlidhar learned Senior counsel as well as Sri A.N. Srivastava in support of this writ petition and Sri V.P. Srivastava, learned Senior counsel assisted by Sri Lav Srivastava and learned AGA in opposition and have gone through the averments made in this writ petition.