A for­mer mem­ber of the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT) has lost his law­suit over be­ing placed on sus­pen­sion for over three years due to a still on­go­ing probe in­to the deaths of two sus­pects in the mur­der of An­drea Bharatt.

De­liv­er­ing a judg­ment yes­ter­day, High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad re­ject­ed the ju­di­cial re­view law­suit brought by PC Mikhail Gon­za­les against the Of­fice of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er.

Jus­tice Seep­er­sad found that Gon­za­les’ con­tin­ued sus­pen­sion with full pay was law­ful.