The counsel pointed retired that the authorities wrote to CCTNS to artifact the FIR details and that an FIR was filed against chartless persons regarding the leak.
The Supreme Court Monday stayed the Madras High Court absorption seeking a departmental enquiry into the leakage of the FIR successful the alleged intersexual assault of an engineering pupil astatine the Anna University field successful Chennai. However, the apical tribunal termed “the leak” a terrible breach of the survivor’s rights.
Hearing an entreaty filed by the Tamil Nadu government, a seat of Justices B V Nagarathna and S C Sharma besides stayed definite adverse remarks by the High Court against the authorities constabulary successful the matter. Justice Nagarathna, however, remarked orally that the leakage had caused secondary trauma to the victim.
Setting up an SIT to probe, the HC had, connected December 28, 2024, criticised the Chennai Police Commissioner A Arun, raising questions astir his behaviour during the aboriginal probe stages.
“When the Constitution does not discriminate betwixt men and women, the nine cannot dictate the mode successful which women should behaviour themselves,” the HC seat stated. The HC directed the authorities to wage `25 lakh arsenic compensation to the subsister for the humiliation she faced owed to the FIR leak, and guarantee her acquisition astatine Anna University without immoderate fees oregon associated costs.
What added to the HC’s ire was that the commissioner had conducted a property league asserting that the sole accused successful the case, Gnanasekaran, had acted alone. “How tin the Commissioner travel to specified a decision close astatine the archetypal signifier of the investigation?…” the precocious tribunal had asked. The seat had instructed the authorities authorities to “initiate due action, if necessary”, against Arun.
However, connected Monday, elder advocates Mukul Rohatgi and Siddharth Luthra, connected behalf of the authorities government, said Arun could not beryllium faulted arsenic the FIR uploaded connected Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS) had blocked idiosyncratic details but a method glitch caused the leakage and due to the fact that the strategy had to migrate from older transgression codes to newer ones.
The counsel pointed retired that the authorities wrote to CCTNS to artifact the FIR details and that an FIR was filed against chartless persons regarding the leak.