Maval firing case: HC asks Maha govt to submit panel report

Mumbai:The Bombay High Court on Tuesday asked the Maharashtra government to produce before it a copy of the M G Gaikwad committee report along with annexures, which probed the police firing incident in 2011 at Maval near Pune, in which three farmers were killed.
The High Court also ordered the state to submit original files on the disci-plinary inquiry against the errant police officers in the case. A division bench headed by Justice A S Oka was hearing a public inter-est litigation filed by activist I G Khandelwal seeking action against the police officers, including the then Superintendent of Police, Pune (Rural), San-deep Karnik, for opening fire at a protesting mob.
The government had informed the court in an affidavit that explanation was sought from the four officers and after perusal of their replies a warning was issued to Karnik and disciplinary proceedings had been initiated against three police officers — Police Inspectors Ashok Patil and Yashwant Gawari and Assistant Police Inspector Ganesh Mane.
“The government deci-ded to issue warning instead of initiating disci-plinary proceeding against Karnik for firing two plastic bullets at the mob, which was not justified even though nobody was injured in the firing. The said decis-ion (written warning) was communicated to him on February 16, 2015,” the affi-davit by Charushila Tambe-kar, Joint Secretary, Home Department, said. (PTI)