An important judgment by Supreme Court came in 2014 wherein directions were issued to Home Department of all the States (which have both Police and State Prosecutors under them) to ensure that only people against whom there is sufficient evidence of having committed a crime are prosecuted. It was also directed that if an accused is acquitted after a trial, an accountability is taken as to why the Police or Prosecution failed to convict that accused person, and erring Police Investigation Officers (IO) and Prosecutors should suffer departmental action. The judgment can be referred to at: State Of Gujarat vs …[Continue Reading]
Police can only call people via written notice for investigation: Madras High court guidelines on CrPC 160
This recent judgment of Madras HC (when do they plan to change the name to Chennai HC (?)) throws light on provisions of CrPC 160 under which police can call witnesses for investigation for any crime. CrPC 160 is reproduced below: Section 160 – Police Officer’s power to require attendance of witnesses 1. Any police officer making an investigation under this Chapter may, by order in writing, require the attendance before himself of any person being within the limits of his own or any adjoining station who, from the information given or otherwise, appears to be acquainted with the facts …[Continue Reading]
File RTIs to police for false cases’ prosecution under IPC 182
According to this recent news, Jaipur police had found over 4206 false/fake cases within one year alone in 2015-16. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/4206-fake-cases-filed-in-city-last-year/articleshow/56673897.cms JAIPUR: The Jaipur police have found that 4,206 fake caseswere reported in Jaipur between 2015-16. In most cases, a false complaint was filed with an aim to extort money or defame a person to settle personal scores. According to a senior police officer, these fake cases included allegations of harassment for dowry, molestation, cheating, and rape. These startling figures surfaces when Prafull Kumar, additional commissioner police (First) asked all DCP offices to provide details about cases where final report (FR) …[Continue Reading]
How to complain against judges of trial courts, High Courts, and Supreme Court?
This post is about how to complain against any judge be it trial courts, high courts, or supreme court in India. Right now it is being written with information collected from various places and based on personal experiences of people, and over time will have authoritative information. This post however does not cover about bad or unbecoming conduct of a judge outside of a court or trial scenario. Complain against judge cannot solely be because of a ‘bad’ judgment or order which has gone against you. Remember that in every interim order/final judgment one of the two opposing parties may …[Continue Reading]
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