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11. Despite repeated questioning, learned Counsel for the petitioner was not prepared to disclose the source from which photo copies of the Wireless Log Book and Diary (Annexures-P.8 and P.9) came in petitioner's possession. The same form part of secret documents maintained by the police. The petitioner is not a person who would be allowed to have access to such documents. The petitioner has given meticulous details, e.g. names of the persons involved, precise time of his removal from one place to other and other particulars with respect to his alleged confinement, yet we are of the view that no reliance can be placed thereon even for the purpose of entertaining the petitioner's request for issuing direction for holding inquiry by C.B.I, for want of sketchy affidavit annexed to the petition, which is not in consonance with the High Court Rules and Order. The affidavit nowhere states that which part or para of the petition is true to the petitioner's personal knowledge and which para thereof is true to his belief. Source of information is also not disclosed in the affidavit. The contents of the petition have been verified to be true and correct to the best of knowledge and belief, which is as vague as can be. Without stating the source of information, no reliance can be placed thereon. Moreover, as per the petitioner's own version, his family members had seen him in handcuffs at Police Station, Lahori Gate at 11 p.m. on 10.4.1996. This version appears to be highly doubtful inasmuch as in the application for grant of bail, alleged to have been moved on behalf of the petitioner, the very next day. This important fact was not disclosed. Otherwise in all probabilities had this been true, a mention thereof ought to have been made in the first bail application, which was moved. The petitioner moved application (Annexure-R.1) wherein the date of his arrest is mentioned by his Counsel as 13.4.1996. In case reference is made to the contents of the rejoinder, which the petitioner has filed in this case, the very act of filing of the instant petition appears to be a camouflage or a proxy litigation by SI Karan Singh. In para 6 of the rejoinder, certain additional facts have been alleged, which according to the rejoinder came to the notice of the Counsel for the petitioner on enquiry made from S.I. Karan Singh. The said facts are stated in Sub-paras (a) to (c) of Para 6 of the reply. It further fortifies our inference about the real nature of petition that it is a proxy litigation at the behest of S.I. Karan Singh. Needless to add that on the basis of an order dated 16.4.1996 S.I. Karan Singh was placed under suspension with immediate effect pending departmental enquiry. By order dated 10.6.1996 (Annexure-P.9) departmental enquiry has been ordered against S.I. Karan Singh. The order says:

The above act on the part of SI Karan Singh No. D-2436 amounts to gross misconduct, remissness and unbecoming of a Government servant in the discharge of his official duty.".

12. The instant petition was filed after departmental proceedings were initiated against S.I. Karan Singh. FIR No. 112/98 registered at Police Station, Rohini already stands cancelled, which was sought to be quashed by the petitioner. Investigation in the other FIR, in which the petitioner was arrested, namely, FIR No. 162/96 of Police Station, Shalimar Bagh, was complete before filing of the instant petition. Challan was presented and trial is in progress. We do not find it to be a fit case for quashing the said FIR No. 162/96 of Police Station, Shalimar Bagh. In view of the highly disputed questions of fact and finding it to be a proxy litigation by the petitioner at the behest of SI Karan Singh while leaving it open to the petitioner to seek appropriate relief in a Civil Court regarding damages, if any, alleged to have been suffered by him regarding his alleged illegal confinement or alleged torture, in which proceedings the disputed questions of fact can be gone into, we are of the view that no direction deserves to be issued in this petition. Ordered accordingly.