Bantwal : A departmental investigation into the alleged case of dereliction of duty against the Bantwal Rural SI Mahesh Prasad has proved him innocent.
A Dowry case was registered in the year 2008, under Prevention of Atrocities on Women and Dowry Act, wherein the gold and other valaubles from the dead body of a women were taken into custody by Bantwal poilce station as they were investigating the case.
Later in the year 2010, when the court ordered the police to produce the valuables in front of the court, the then, SI of Bantwal police station Mahesh Prasad failed to do so.
For which, Mahesh Prasad was accused of athorcity and was blamed for the missing gold.
The case is pending hearing in the 2nd Additional District and Sessions Court. The investigation officer had then recovered the clothes and jewels on the body of the woman and had informed the same to the court in 2010.
The court which took up the case for hearing had on 6-7-2013 served a show cause notice to the Bantwal Rural Police Station Inspector to produce before the court the seized clothes and jewels. In response, the Bantwal Inspector Mahesh Prasad had informed the court that the documents have already proved that the seized things have been produced and that they were not found in the station. However, the court which contended that the argument was not acceptable had issued a non-bailable warrant against Mahesh Prasad.
When Mahesh Prasad appeared before court earlier this year, the court remanded him to judicial custody and later the order was withdrawn upon a request from higher officials. The court also directed the Bantwal Circle Inspector to submit a detailed investigation report. Various media even carried reports in this regard.
The Bantwal Circle Inspector who then took up investigations, found that the records said that the clothes and jewels had been produced before the court during the tenure of Vinayaka Billawa, the then SI and writer Dinesh Kumar who served between 2009 and 2010. The Circle Inspector, in his report also stated that Vinayaka Billawa Dinesh Kumar had erred in this regard. The report also contended that Mahesh Prasad who took charge as Rural SI later on had nothing to do with the case and that he was innocent in the case.