New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today sought responses from the police commissioner and a senior IPS officer, who had allegedly misbehaved with a constable and punished him by making him crawl for not saluting the officer at Patiala House district courts complex here. Additional DCP Seju P Kurvila had allgedly punished the constable who was said to be talking on his mobile phone while on duty at a gate of the court premises. "We issue notice to the Delhi Police Commissioner as well as to the additional DCP concerned. We also direct the police commissioner to file a status report about the incident on February 15," a bench of Acting Chief Justice A K Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said. The court`s direction came on oral submissions of lawyer R K Saini, seeking initiation of criminal contempt proceeding against Kurvila for "delowering" and "scandalising" the court and its proceedings. Citing various news reports on the incident which hogged the limelight, Saini alleged that the order of the District judge of the Patiala House courts was "inappropriate as he has simply forwarded the complaint of some lawyers to the police chief for taking action as per the law". "The police officer, who himself was not in uniform, took exception to the behaviour of the constable who did not salute him. Not only that, the police officer tore the badge and snatched his mobile phone and awarded the inhuman and indecent punishment for a non-existing offence," Saini alleged and cited various judgement to support his plea. PTI