The Bombay High Court today&nbsp;refused to interfere with Maharashtra government's decision of&nbsp;giving clean chit to senior police officer Sandeep Karnik, who&nbsp;is alleged to have opened fire at a group of protesters in&nbsp;Maval near Pune in 2011, killing one woman.
A division bench of justices A S Oka and C V Bhadang&nbsp;disposed of a PIL filed by activist I G Khandelwal seeking&nbsp;action against Karnik.&nbsp;
According to the petition, Karnik, then Superintendent&nbsp;of Police, Pune rural, had opened fire at the mob and it was&nbsp;his bullet that killed the woman.&nbsp;
The government had earlier informed the court in an&nbsp;affidavit that explanation was sought from four officers and&nbsp;after perusal of their replies, a warning was issued to Karnik&nbsp;and disciplinary proceedings were initiated against three&nbsp;police officers - inspectors Ashok Patil and Yashwant Gawari&nbsp;and assistant inspector Ganesh Mane.
According to the government, Karnik had fired two&nbsp;bullets in the air to disperse the crowd and had later fired&nbsp;rubber bullets.&nbsp;
The bench, while disposing of the petition today,&nbsp;observed that the government's decision was not arbitrary and&nbsp;hence refused to interfere. "After perusing the records&nbsp;nothing is shown on record that the deceased died of the&nbsp;bullet fired by Karnik," the court said.
The court had earlier perused the post-mortem and&nbsp;chemical analysis reports of the victim and also the report of&nbsp;the M G Gaikwad Committee.&nbsp;
On August 8, 2011, police had opened fire on villagers&nbsp;protesting against the government's decision to lay a closed&nbsp;pipeline to supply water from the Pavna dam to the limits of&nbsp;Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation. Agriculturists had&nbsp;claimed that they would not get water for their crops if the&nbsp;closed pipeline was laid.

Bombay High Court refuses to interfere with Maharashtra government's decision of&nbsp;giving clean chit to senior police officer Sandeep Karnik, who&nbsp;is alleged to have opened fire at a group of protesters in&nbsp;Maval near Pune in 2011, killing one woman

Maval firing: HC refuses to interfere in clean chit to cop

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Bombay High Court refuses to interfere with Maharashtra government's decision of&nbsp;giving clean chit to senior police officer Sandeep Karnik, who&nbsp;is alleged to have opened fire at a group of protesters in&nbsp;Maval near Pune in 2011, killing one woman

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