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Justice Kumar has adjourned the substance until February 10 and ordered that the indispensable steps beryllium taken wrong 10 days to code the situation.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has powerfully criticised the constabulary for their nonaccomplishment to apprehend the accused successful a POCSO lawsuit involving the rape of a 13-year-old miss successful Jalandhar. Holding that elder constabulary officers are “shying distant from performing their duties,” the Court has directed the Commissioner of Police, Jalandhar, to record an affidavit explaining the inaction since the FIR was registered connected July 26, 2024.
The Court was proceeding a petition filed by a pistillate seeking directions for the constabulary to instrumentality due enactment regarding the FIR for the rape of her granddaughter and to guarantee that the challan is filed wrong a circumstantial clip frame. Justice Namit Kumar, during the hearing, noted the “sorry authorities of affairs” wherever the accused remains astatine ample contempt the rejection of anticipatory bail.
The incidental occurred connected March 24, 2024, but the FIR was lone filed aft the involution of the Court. The Court recovered that nary important enactment had been taken by the constabulary since the registration of the FIR, and determination had been nary effort to apprehension the accused.
The Court besides observed that the constabulary had failed to implicit the probe wrong the two-month timeframe mandated by instrumentality and had not apprehended the accused contempt aggregate ineligible setbacks. The deficiency of tangible efforts to apprehension the accused was described arsenic a reflection of the incompetence of the constabulary authorities.
Justice Kumar has adjourned the substance until February 10 and ordered that the indispensable steps beryllium taken wrong 10 days to code the situation.
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