The Supreme Court held Police Inspector of Vesu police station, Surat, guilty of contempt for arresting Tusharbhai Shah on 11.12.2023 and obtaining his police-custody remand in defiance of the Court's subsisting interim anticipatory bail order dated 08.12.2023. By the guilt judgment dated 07.08.2024 the inspector and the remanding magistrate were both held guilty; the Court condemned the practice of seeking remand despite subsisting anticipatory bail. By the sentence order dated 02.09.2024 the magistrate's apology was accepted while the inspector was sentenced to a fine of Rs 25,000. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.
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How verification works →By judgment dated 2 September 2024 in Contempt Petition (C) Diary No. 1106 of 2024 in SLP (Crl.) No. 14489 of 2023, the Supreme Court of India (Coram: B.R. Gavai, J.) recorded the conviction of the Police Inspector, Vesu Police Station, Surat.
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“Insofar as Shri [name withheld], Police Inspector, Vesu Police Station, Surat (Contemnor-respondent No.4) is concerned, we sentence him to pay fine in the sum of Rs.25,000/-, to be deposited in the Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association to be used for the …” (para 8)
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