MP Mohan Delkar’s death: SC upholds order quashing case against UT administrator, others
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a Bombay High Court order quashing the first information report against Dadra and Nagar Haveli administrator Praful Khoda Patel and others in connection with the death of independent MP Mohan Delkar in February 2021, Bar and Bench reported.
A bench of Chief Justice BR Gavai and Justices K Vinod Chandran and NV Anjaria confirmed the high court’s September 2022 order and dismissed the appeal filed against it.
Mohan Delkar, a seven-time parliamentarian from Dadra and Nagar Haveli, was found dead in a Mumbai hotel room on February 22, 2021. A 14-page suicide note was recovered from the room, which alleged that he had taken the step due to political pressure, Bar and Bench reported.
On March 9, 2021, the police registered an FIR after his family filed a complaint on behalf of his son, Abhinav Delkar, The Indian Express reported.
The complaint was registered under sections of the Indian Penal Code pertaining to abetment of suicide, criminal intimidation and criminal conspiracy and provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Prevention of Atrocities Act.
The FIR alleged that the MP faced harassment from the Union Territory administration, purportedly at the behest of Patel, Bar and Bench reported.
It alleged that he had been under pressure for a year before his death and was harassed by the administration in an...
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