SRINAGAR: In the slap gate case, police on Tuesday filed its status report before the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Kishtwar. The copies of the status report were handed over to the complainant while the case was listed for next hearing on May 29.
Pertinently, Minister of State for Home, Sajjad Ahmed Kitchloo had allegedly slapped the Chief Executive Officer Kishtwar Development Authority, Reyaz Ahmed Choudhari for arriving late to a reception.
Following the incident, the said officer had approached the court against the minister.
The Court had expressed anguish over the incident of manhandling of one of the senior officers of the service by a minister and had directed the police to investigate the matter and file a status report stating whether there were sufficient grounds for filing an FIR against the minister.
Council for the complainant, Mr Zulqurnain said that police submitted its status report before CJM, Kishtawar, Ajay Kumar Gupta. We have received the copies of the report. We will go through the report in detail and only after that we will let the court know whether we are satisfied with the report or not, he said adding that case has been listed for 29th of this month again. (CNS)
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