The Punjab and Haryana High Court Wednesday turned down a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking hand over case of the alleged suicide of senior Haryana-cadre IPS officer Y Puran Kumar to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The court observed that no case had been made out for interference when a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was already conducting the probe.
The Division Bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry dismissed the petition.
“From the aforesaid, it does not appear that there is any unnecessary delay or laxity in the conduct of the investigation. In view of the above, no case for handing over the investigation to any independent agency is made out,” the court held.
The PIL was filed by a Ludhiana resident. He alleged that the probe into the IPS officer Y Puran Kumar's “mysterious” death had not progressed since none of the senior officers named in the suicide note had been questioned.
The bench noted that despite being asked at the previous hearing, counsel for the petitioner had failed to cite a single Supreme Court judgment to show that the case met the guidelines for transferring a probe to an independent agency.
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