Known for his powerful stance in opposition to corruption and vital judgments aiming to guard particular person liberty, a judicial officer M M Dhonchak attained superannuation on Wednesday after an “eventful” profession spanning over three many years. Currently, he was District and Sessions Judge of Gurgaon.
Serving as District and Sessions Judge in Gurgaon, Kaithal and Nuh throughout previous round six years, Dhonchak laid particular emphasis on adherence to Supreme Court pointers in a case “Arnesh Kumar vs State of Bihar and Others” in opposition to “illegal arrests” for offences punishable with imprisonment for a time period of seven years or much less.
During first few months of his posting in Gurgaon, the variety of inmates had gone right down to 2,605 on January 31, 2020 from 2,880 on September 30, 2019. Later in 2020, the courts remained partially shut for a protracted interval attributable to Covid-19.
In Gurgaon, Dhonchak, in his time period spanning one and a half years, divested a number of investigating officers of their powers for six months on discovering them inefficient other than making adversarial observations in opposition to a number of different cops for “deficient in discharge of duty”, transferred courtroom staffers accused of corruption to insignificant posts and careworn on scrutiny of challans on the preliminary stage to dispose of any discrepancies.
In a latest order aiming to steadiness the rights of accused to authorized help and the investigating company’s requirement of recording their statements in judicial custody, Dhonchak permitted the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to query two accused in jail premises at Bhondsi for 4 hours each day for a few days however dominated that on each the times, earlier than the questioning, the accused could be at liberty to work together with their counsel for 20 minutes.
In 1993, say sources, a bit of native policemen had launched nearly an “agitation” in opposition to him when he, as judicial Justice of the Peace (firstclass) at Kaithal, started imposing fines on police personnel for not turning up in courtroom for proof.
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In 2006, as District and Sessions Judge of Mewat, Dhonchak had reprimanded the policemen for producing an undertrial to the courtroom in handcuffs with out permission of the decide. In the identical 12 months, he had requested the state authorities to compensate a Mewat resident by paying him Rs 4 lakh for prosecuting him in a legal case for about for 4 years.
In a judgment in 2011, Dhonchak as Additional Sessions Judge of Bhiwani had directed the district SP to make sure that the follow of utilizing Urdu phrases needs to be deserted and as an alternative Hindi or English needs to be used. “The reply to the bail application (of the case) contains several words of Urdu and other languages with which this court is not conversant and it was with great difficulty that this court could apprehend the contents …time and again this court has expressed its displeasure over this irresponsible attitude of the police,” the decide had acknowledged.
Meanwhile, Surya Pratap Singh will take over as the brand new District and Sessions Judge of Gurgaon.