The Kapashera police station had registered an FIR against Salam. "All this creates a serious lapse on the part of the IO in conducting a fair and proper investigation, and thus, gives rise to suspicion in the version of the prosecution story," the court said. Not only this, the investigating officer did not even note down the names and addresses of the neighbouring shop owners and other public persons or serve any notice to them, upon their refusal to join the investigation, the court said. It also noted the absence of any public witnesses and the non-recording of statements of the vendors or shop owners in the vicinity of the vendor's cart. "In the absence of the complaint from any public person, it is difficult to comprehend as to how the act of the accused was causing inconvenience to passers-by or causing public nuisance," the court said. The court also noted the photographs of the spot and said, "The said counter (cart) does not even appear to have been installed on the main road, rather the same has been apparently placed in one separate corner of the road, where no public persons walking past the said counter are visible at all, let alone, them facing inconvenience due to the same." It said no public person was identified or made a witness to whom obstruction, danger or injury was caused by the accused's act. Maharashtra Times, a Marathi news paper provides news in Marathi, Marathi batmya, todays news headlines from sports, entertainment, politics and more. "Such material discrepancies raise doubt regarding the proceedings having been conducted at the spot and also give rise to the suspicion that the same was done in a mechanical manner in the police station itself and that the accused may have been falsely implicated in the present case," the magistrate said. Get latest Marathi news from Maharashtra, India and World.
Noting the absence of the daily diary entry at the police station, the magistrate said it rendered the fact of the police officials' departure for patrolling and subsequent arrival on the spot "questionable and suspicious".
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