Gujarat doctor suicide case: HC issues notice to police officers over no FIR

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On Wednesday, when the matter came up for hearing before a division bench of Justices NV Anjaria and Niral Mehta, public prosecutor Manan Mehta told the court that the police will take a final call about the registration of the FIR by Friday.

Not satisfied by the response, the bench issued notices to range IG Mayanksinh Chavda, Gir Somnath district Superintendent of police, Manoharsinh Jadeja, a deputy SP and a police inspector.

They were directed to submit replies by March 28, when the bench will hear the matter again.

The doctor killed himself on February 12 at his hospital in Veraval town. A suicide note purportedly written by him named a BJP MP and his father.

Later, the deceased’s family submitted an application to Veraval police to register an FIR against the MP and his father.

When the police did not register the case under section 306 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for abetment to suicide, the doctor’s son moved the HC and filed a contempt petition last week.

The petitioner, through his lawyer Rajesh Kanani, claimed the directions given by the Supreme Court in the Lalita Kumari case regarding the registration of FIR were not followed in this case, and therefore it attracts the contempt of court.

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