ASN 1 PIL-59 &CAI-77.sxw IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO.59 OF 2008 WITH CIVIL APPLICATION NO.77 OF 2011 Alim Abu Bakar Chagla. ..Petitioner. Vs. State of Maharashtra and ors. ..Respondents. Mr.Anirban Tripathy for the Petitioner. Mr.N.D.Deshpande, AGP for Respondent Nos.1 to 7. CORAM : MOHIT S. SHAH, C. J. AND SMT. ROSHAN DALVI, J. DATE : 22 DECEMBER 2011 PC: Mr. N.D. Deshpande, learned A.G.P. has tendered affidavit dated 21 December 2011 of Dr. Satya Pal Singh, Additional Director General of Police (Law and order), Maharashtra State, Mumbai indicating the developments made after the statement was made by the learned Advocate General on 1 April 2010 that the investigation of the case (now pending with the Court of Joint Civil Judge and J.M.F.C., Pune) in RCC No. 3967 of 2007 will be supervised by an officer not below the rank of Inspector General of Police who shall be appointed by the Director General of Police and the officer so appointed shall submit his report to the Director General of Police as and when investigation is complete. ASN 2 PIL-59 &CAI-77.sxw 2 The above statement was made on 1 April,2010 long after the report was submitted by the Dy. Superintendent of Police, Dehu Road for grant of B Summary on 2 January 2009 and even after the learned J.M.F.C. Pune had passed order on 15 May 2009 setting aside the B Summary report. 3 Having regard to the fact that the then Inspector General of Police under whose control and supervision the investigation was carried out is presently the Head of the CID Branch, it would be in the fitness of things that the investigation now be carried on under the control and supervision of the present Inspector General of Police, Kolhapur within whose jurisdiction Dehu Road Police Station falls. 4 Accordingly, the investigation of the above case shall be carried on under the control and supervision of Inspector General of Police of Kolhapur Range. The investigation shall be completed as expeditiously as possible and preferably within three months from today. The Inspector General of Police, Kolhapur Range shall also record the statement of the applicant as expeditiously as possible and within 15 days from today. 3 Both Public Interest Litigation and Civil Application stand disposed of in terms of the above directions. CHIEF JUSTICE ( SMT. ROSHAN DALVI, J. )