In a blow to the 11 policemen whose life sentence was suspended for six months by Maharashtra Government, the Bombay High Court on Monday granted an interim stay on the suspension order and directed them to surrender by January 4.
The State Government had last month passed an order by which it suspended for six months the life sentence imposed on 11 cops convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the fake encounter of alleged Chhota Rajan gang member Ramnarayan Gupta alias lakhanbhaiya in November 2006. lakhanbhaiya was shot allegedly by the policemen in suburban Versova.
The 11 policemen were released on December 3. lakhanbhaiya’s brother Ramprasad Gupta approached the HC challenging the Government’s decision and terming it as “illegal, null, void, bad in law, perverse, unreasonable, arbitrary, cryptic, vague and liable to be quashed and set aside.”