PATNA: The Patna high court (HC) on Wednesday stayed an order of the state government for the recovery of Rs 20,000 from IPS officer Manavjeet Singh Dhillon as directed by the Bihar Human Rights Commission (BHRC).The BHRC had in August 2016 imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 each on the Rohtas SP and DSP and Rs 60,000 on the SHO of Suryagarha police station in the district for allegedly making a botch of the investigation into a case of kidnapping.Dhillon’s counsel P K Shahi submitted before the court that the case of kidnapping had later turned out to be a case of elopement as Sunita Devi, who was alleged to have been kidnapped, appeared before a court and recorded her statement on January 14, 2012.Police filed the chargsheet in the case in 2013. In March 2015, even a compromise petition was filed by the accused and the complainant before a judicial magistrate in Rohtas.Dhillon was posted as the SP of Rohtas after the probe into the case — from August 2015 to April 2018, and the BHRC’s order came in August 2016. On the basis of the BHRC order, the home department on October 27, 2016 directed the DGP to recover 20% of the fine from Dhillon’s salary.A bench of Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh ordered no coercive action against Dhillon and also issued a notice to Ravindra Singh who had approached the BHRC against the alleged poor investigation into the case of kidnapping in which he was one of the accused.

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