Yesterday I had covered recent news about Supreme Court ordering all locks-ups in police stations (and prisons) to mandatorily have CCTVs installed. While searching for that news, I found that SC has already issued orders in April, 2015 that all Delhi police stations should be covered by CCTVs. And this order is not only for lock-ups inside police station, but basically seems to cover whole of PS, which should definitely cover the lobby/reception and other important areas where complainants and others meet the police officials. There are two news on the matter, and the earlier one is from Apr 23, …[Continue Reading]
Supreme Court makes CCTV mandatory in all police stations
According to this latest news, Supreme court has made video capturing via CCTV mandatory in all police stations. Update Jul 27, 2015: This news has appeared only in few newspapers so far. According to this news reported by Economic Times, the SC has made CCTV to be mandatory in prisons, and in police lock-ups. Police lock-up does not necessarily imply all rooms of the police station are to be monitored under CCTV, but definitely CCTV should cover the lock-up rooms where arrested people are detained. Even that should be a good start, and within few months, people can start filing …[Continue Reading]
How to take action against police or magistrate for 498A arrest without following CrPC 41, 41A
Although most of the time I see that the people joining men’s forums are not getting arrested upon 498A FIR, there are a few who have been arrested. I think they are aware of the SC judgment against arbitrary arrest in 498A, but haven’t taken any action against police/magistrate after that. The Arnesh Kumar SC judgment is already blogged here which gives full judgment text of “no automatic arrests in 498A” judgment by Supreme Court on Jul 2, 2014. This post is meant for anyone who got arrested under 498A after Jul 2, 2014, and wants to do something about …[Continue Reading]
False rape by model against Mumbai DIG Sunil Paraskar falls flat
Usually some MRAs feel sense of delight when a false sexual harassment or 498a/DV case gets filed against the godfathers in Indian society: the police, judiciary, politicians etc. The idea being that once these godfathers feel the heat of false cases, they just might do something for the aam-aadmi and mango people of the country. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Rape-allegation-against-Maharashtra-top-cop-Sunil-Paraskar-is-for-publicity-Models-ex-lawyer/articleshow/39690642.cms MUMBAI: In a new turn to the rape and molestation case against IPS officer Sunil Paraskar, a former lawyer of the alleged victim, a model-turned-actress, has said she never told him about the rape and claimed she brought up the charge to gain publicity …[Continue Reading]
Another rape for non-marriage scam!
As usual, the police has promptly dispatched team to arrest the accused… see another post just few days back about police treating live-in relationship gone sour as rape! http://www.ndtv.com/news/cities/woman-alleges-rape-after-ex-lover-breaks-marriage-promise-29095.php A jilted lover lodged a complaint against her former lover on Sunday after he dumped her and tried to marry someone else. The 29-year-old engineer was in love with Jitendra Vasant Patil , a resident of Nandurbar, for the past four years. According to the Shivajinagar police, the victim claimed that Patil forced her to have a physical relationship with him, saying he wanted to marry her. Patil, an interior designer, …[Continue Reading]
Brain-deficient police treats live-in relationship as rape!
Here is another instance of action-happy, but brain-deficient Indian police whose policy on any rape complaint by a woman seems to be to lodge FIR, arrest the man accused, and then think of what to do about investigation and putting charges. When lawmakers have made laws like PWDVA (protection of women against domestic violence act), which clearly recognize the occurrence of live-in relationships, and provide reliefs for woman in a live-in relationship; it is clear that a rape charge by a woman in a live-in relationship is nothing but abuse of laws. Indian Supreme Court has recently said that live-in …[Continue Reading]
Delhi Additional Sessions Judge convicts DCP, ACP of Delhi for contempt of court
IN THE COURT OF SMT. PRATIBHA RANI, DJIII CUM I/C ASJ (WEST), DELHI *** M No. 12/09 D.N. Joshi, Advocate & Anr. ……….Petitioners Versus Sh. Sharad Aggarwal, I.P.S. & Ors. ………Respondents **** M No.3/2010 Smt. Meena Sen & Anr. ……….Petitioners Versus Smt. Damini & Anr. ………Respondents **** ORDER An application under Sec. 12 of Contempt of Courts Act 1971 for initiating contempt proceedings against the respondents has been filed by Sh. D.N. Joshi and Daya Ram Badalia, Advocates. During the pendency of this application, another application was filed by Smt. Meena Sen and her husband Sh. Ramesh Chandra Sen with …[Continue Reading]
Pune police’s false rapes report: come on feminists, stop being cry babies!
Ha… police cover up, or feminist cover up? You decide. I have highlighted the important points you can use to bash up the feminist women dis-empowering NGOs. The link to original news about police report on rapes is given below: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/70-rape-victims-in-city-are-minors-Study-/articleshow/5865509.cms Below is the latest news update on above report: http://www.punemirror.in/index.aspx?page=article§id=2&contentid=201004282010042823514675722129e15§xslt= Ruckus over cops’ rape stats Pune police report that said 74 per cent of rapes since 2008 were consensual sex based on false promises of marriage has divided the city into two factions. One side condemns the police for shirking responsibilty and the other is glad cops are trying …[Continue Reading]
CIC judgment which allowed police case diary using RTI
This judgment explains the scope of Section 8(1) (g) of RTI act as applied to police case diary: RTI Act’s Sec 8(1) (g): information, the disclosure of which would endanger the life or physical safety of any person or identify the source of information or assistance given in confidence for law enforcement or security purposes; The gist of the judgment is: We say this while still recognizing that in all requests for information under RTI Act, especially when they pertain to the law enforcement authorities, it becomes necessary to strike a fine balance between the imperatives of the confidentiality of …[Continue Reading]
Punjab SIC judgment which allows case diary from police through RTI
The judgment below has been copied from original link of Punjab SIC website given below as given by google search. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=2&ved=0CAwQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infocommpunjab.com%2Fhtm%2Fdocuments%2F2009%2FOrders%252016%255B1%255D.11.2009.doc&ei=5rjZS-u5HI2gsgPOiJGwAQ&usg=AFQjCNFVw0qpmHUtxfMf6l8ttTJ6hpdMcg&sig2=Ys-RWEwowx4Wn-PDqFtsMA Note: The garbled text in 2 paras in judgment below is as in original judgment. The main points of the judgment are: That section 22 of RTI act has overriding effect on Sec 172 of CrPC. That case diary maintained by police is “information” as per RTI Act. To claim exemption under sec 8 (h) of RTI act, the police should not only allege but also at least prima facie show that disclosure of information would impede the process …[Continue Reading]
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