Bench dismisses plea of assistant bank manager

Madras High Court bench has dismissed the plea of an assistant manager of a bank to direct the CBI inspector to submit prosecution copies in Tamil.
Justice A Arumughaswamy in his order noted that the prosecution had served its copies to petitioner R Karpura Sundara Pandian in a language known to him and his plea was only to drag the case.
CBI had filed a case against Pandian, working at a private bank in Tiruchi Cantonment, for allegedly committing a fraud by transferring Fixed Deposits of customers to his account.
Rozario Sundarraj, CBI Special Public Prosecutor, said the agency had collected numerous documents from the private bank, depositors and account holders, all in English.

The case is pending in the trial court and the prosecution had submitted its copies in English, he added.
Pandian claimed he had filed a case in the trial court seeking a direction to the prosecution to file copies in Tamil as it was mandatory under Section 207 of CrPC He moved the High Court bench as the trial court had dismissed his plea.
CBI counsel contended that Pandian, a postgraduate, was working as an assistant manager in a bank and was discharging his duties in English. Hence there was no necessity to submit prosecution copies of documents in Tamil, he argued.

The bench after hearing arguments, dismissed Pandian's plea.