Tarun Karthick
Port Blair, 01 November 2022
Andaman and Nicobar Administartion on Monday challenged the interim protection against arrest granted to Mr. Jitendra Narain by the Hon’ble High Court of Calcutta in the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. The bench presided by the Hon’ble Chief Justice of India said that the matter will be listed on Friday (November 04 2022).
Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General of India appeared for the UT Administartion and he informed the Hon’ble Court that they had proof that Mr. Narain had tampered with the evidence.
Mr. Narain reportedly issued written directions to the Private Firm maintaining the CCTV Cameras to remove them.
The 21-year-old victim also approached the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India on Monday. The bench tagged the plea of the victim with that of the UT Administartion.
UT Administartion informed the Hon’ble Supreme Court in their plea that as per the statement of 21-year-old victim and protected witness under section 161 & 164 of the CrPC, “the present case appears to be a case of ‘habitual sexual predation’ where the respondent accused… under the weight and power of his authority along with another senior government officer (labour commissioner, co-accused), used to induce and exploit innocent victims on the pretext of getting them jobs”. It said “the allegations levelled… are extremely serious and grave in nature”, The Indian Express reported.
The UT administration in its plea also said that Narain’s decision to approach the Delhi HC and Calcutta HC “instead of… the jurisdiction Sessions Court at Port Blair, with a plea that no forum was available to him on account of vacation, is nothing but a blatant attempt of forum shopping and abuse of process of law”.