The Madras High Court on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, dismissed a petition filed by former special Director General of Police (DGP) Rajesh Das, seeking exemption from surrendering despite a trial court as well as an appellate court having found him guilty of making sexual advances towards a woman Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and imposing a punishment of three years of rigorous imprisonment.
Justice M. Dhandapani refused to grant exemption to the former top cop from surrendering before Villupuram Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) which had convicted and sentenced him to imprisonment in the sexual harassment case.
The judge also dismissed another petition filed by the convict for suspending the sentence imposed on him until the disposal of a revision petition filed by him before the High Court challenging the verdict delivered by the CJM on June 16, 2023, and confirmed by the Villupuram Principal District on February 12, 2024. The judge said, there was no reason to either suspend the sentence or to grant him exemption from surrendering.
