Judicial officer accused of hit and run, Supreme Court notice on plea for case transfer

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice on a plea seeking transfer of trial in a hit-and-run case, in which the accused is a judicial magistrate, from Punjab to Delhi.

The family of the victim has expressed apprehension about getting a fair trial in the state, as the case involves a judicial officer from the same district in Punjab.

According to the plea, the 32-year-old victim died in February this year after he was hit by a car allegedly driven by the magistrate. He was travelling from Hoshiarpur to Phagwara. The victim’s sister lodged a complaint but the family alleged that the police initially recorded the accused as an “unknown person” in the FIR. The family had moved the Supreme Court and, on its direction, the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking a central agency probe in the c