Chandigarh, Oct. 17 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the senior superintendent of police (SSP), Kapurthala, to initiate departmental proceedings against a police officer who effected the arrest of a person in an alleged drugs seizure case, later found to be not intoxicant. The person arrested by the Kapurthala police, Sandeep Kumar, remained in jail for four months.

"...there has been a very serious lapse on the part of the investigating officer, who put the petitioner behind the bars on the basis of an unfounded and unsubstantiated suspicion. The personal life and liberty of every human being is of paramount importance, but in the case in hand, the things appear to be otherwise.," the bench of justice Surya Pratap Singh...