CoP told to conduct probe on image used in signboards
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AAA The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed the Madurai Commissioner of Police to probe into a 2012 incident where the image of a youth was wrongly used in signboards to caution the devotees of thieves during the Chithirai festival.
Hearing the appeal filed by the youth, A Division Bench of Justices Pushpa Sathyanarayana and S. Kannammal directed the Police Commissioner to take appropriate action against the erring police personnel.
The youth preferred an appeal against a single bench order that dismissed his plea for compensation and appropriate action against the erring police personnel. He said that he was booked by the police after he was involved in a scuffle with his college mates. He claimed that the police had foisted a case against him. He was arrested, remanded in police custody and released on the same day on bail in 2011. Under these circumstances, the police used