No Relief to Umesh Kumar IPS in Supreme Court
posted on Jun 6, 2012 @ 3:38PM
Senior IPS officer from state, Umesh Kumar didn't get any relief from the Supreme Court in the alleged forgery case against him. The court on Tuesday refused to stay an AP high court order quashing the charge of forgery. Umesh Kumar had been charged with forging documents to prove that state police chief Dinesh Reddy and his wife owned assets exceeding their legal income.
A bench of justices KS Radhakrishnan and JS Khehar refused to accede to the AP government's plea and told its senior counsel R Venkatramani and standing counsel Mahesh Babu that it would take it up only after the summer vacation. The senior counsel claimed that an earlier bench of justices Deepak Verma and SJ Mukhopadhya had, on May 21, passed an order staying the high court's direction. However, when the order was put on the website it did not reflect the direction for stay, the counsel said. He submitted that the apex court had stayed the high court's order so that the trial might proceed unhindered. The bench, however, was not impressed with the argument and told the counsel that the plea for stay could be examined only after the vacation.