New Delhi: "The Supreme Court has become a safe haven for the criminals", the top court said today while dismissing the anticipatory bail plea of Gujarat Additional Director General of Police P P Pande, who has been named an accused in the killing of Ishrat Jahan and three others in a fake encounter in 2004.
Dismissing Mr Pande's plea, the Supreme Court said: "You were an absconder earlier also. Your conduct makes you dis-entitled to anticipatory bail."
In further rebuke to the senior cop, Justice BS Chauhan added, "I can say it on oath that we are not devoting even five percent of our time for the common man. It is senior counsel and criminals who take up most of the time."
Mr Pande had gone missing after being made an accused in the encounter case two months ago. He surfaced last month, making a couple of dramatic appearances in the court, first on a stretcher and then in a wheelchair.
The 1982-batch IPS officer was Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Ahmedabad, when Mumbai-based Ishrat, her friend Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, and two other persons, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar, were killed by Crime Branch officials on June 15, 2004 on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.
In its first chargesheet filed last month, the CBI listed Mr Pande as one of seven policemen who allegedly were involved in the conspiracy to kill her in what it described as a "staged encounter" committed "in cold blood".
The Gujarat Crime Branch had then claimed the four were terrorists, on a mission to kill Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Dismissing Mr Pande's plea, the Supreme Court said: "You were an absconder earlier also. Your conduct makes you dis-entitled to anticipatory bail."
In further rebuke to the senior cop, Justice BS Chauhan added, "I can say it on oath that we are not devoting even five percent of our time for the common man. It is senior counsel and criminals who take up most of the time."
Mr Pande had gone missing after being made an accused in the encounter case two months ago. He surfaced last month, making a couple of dramatic appearances in the court, first on a stretcher and then in a wheelchair.
The 1982-batch IPS officer was Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Ahmedabad, when Mumbai-based Ishrat, her friend Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, and two other persons, Amjad Ali Rana and Zeeshan Johar, were killed by Crime Branch officials on June 15, 2004 on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.
In its first chargesheet filed last month, the CBI listed Mr Pande as one of seven policemen who allegedly were involved in the conspiracy to kill her in what it described as a "staged encounter" committed "in cold blood".
The Gujarat Crime Branch had then claimed the four were terrorists, on a mission to kill Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
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