According to the police, the accused, Pramod Kumar, was arrested at Dwarka’s Sector 6 market last week on “suspicion”. The police claim that they found a stolen mobile phone in Kumar’s front shirt pocket, and produced him before the court the next day. Only to be told that the shirt Kumar was wearing had no pockets at all.
He also said that the police did not give him any food, so “will they give me clothes?”
Metropolitan Magistrate Choudhary said, “The accused has been falsely implicated in the matter, and (is) accordingly released.”
The police framed charges against Kumar in another case of purse snatching in Dwarka during his one-day custody. The police also submitted a disclosure statement in the court. In it, Kumar admitted to stealing the cellphone from Sector 6 market and later snatching a woman’s purse.
Dismissing both cases, the court pulled up police for shoddy and contradictory submissions. A copy of the notice has also been sent to police chief K K Paul “for necessary compliance under intimation to this court”.
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