HC quashes FIR against deputy collector, steno

Aurangabad | Monday | 9th July, 2018

Summary:

If the superior officer is asked to face trial on the basis of such allegations, no superior officer will be able to control staff. "This must have caused harassment to the superior officer. Aurangabad: In what has been described as "sheer abuse" of the legal process, the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court quashed a five-year-old FIR registered by a woman tehsildar against a deputy collector and his stenographer. This court holds this is nothing but a sheer abuse of process of law,” it added. The court said the tehsildar misused her gender and caste to make serious allegations against the two.On October 11, 2013, the then deputy collector, Sunil Balaji Mahindrakar, and his stenographer, Chandrakant Kadam, were slapped with a number of charges based on a complaint by the then woman tehsildar at Paranda..