Varanasi SC/ST Court Orders Arrest of Kaushambi CO for Skipping Witness Dates

The Special Judge under the SC/ST Act at Varanasi, Sudhakar Rai, has ordered the arrest of Kaushambi Circle Officer Satyendra Prasad Tiwari and a stop on his salary after the officer skipped repeated dates fixed for his evidence in Sessions Trial No. 401/2018, State versus Taufeek Alam Ansari. The order, reported around Monday, 7 September 2026, directs that the witness-accused officer be produced by 10 September and that salary be frozen through the treasury channel.

Tiwari was the investigating officer on the case and is now posted as Circle Officer, Kaushambi. The Varanasi special court is the forum; Kaushambi is only the present posting. That geographic split is why this desk treats the story as a Varanasi court hook, not a Kaushambi crime blotter rewrite.

The court record cited missed video-conference and in-person dates on 13 August, 24 August and 1 September. Judge Sudhakar Rai’s order, as reported, said the witness appeared to be deliberately absent and therefore directed arrest process and salary stop. Those are judicial directions on attendance in a pending trial. They are not findings on the merits of ST 401/2018.

A separate viral clip of the same CO consoling kin after a cracker-blast incident in the Sirathu area travelled on social media in the same broad window. That clip is not the legal ground of Judge Rai’s order. This article does not convert a consoling video into the cause of an SC/ST court arrest direction. The cause on the judicial paper is skipped witness dates in ST 401/2018.

Produce-by-10-September is a hard calendar mark. Salary stop via the CTO line is the coercive companion. Together they signal that the special court treats IO-turned-CO non-appearance as obstruction of its process, not as a soft administrative lapse.

Witness attendance by investigating officers is routine glue in criminal trials. When the IO has been promoted and posted out, the logistics get harder—and the excuses get longer. Judge Rai’s order collapses that excuse into custody process if the officer is not produced by the stated date.

For Varanasi’s court reporters, the local fact is simple: a special court sitting in this city has ordered arrest and salary freeze against a serving CO for absences on its own witness list. For readers in Kaushambi, the same order is a posting-side headache. The legal file remains ST 401/2018 in Varanasi.

Special Judge Sudhakar Rai’s direction to arrest Satyendra Prasad Tiwari and stop his salary, with production due by 10 September in ST 401/2018, is a Varanasi SC/ST court story about skipped dates—not about any Sirathu blast video that travelled beside the officer’s name.