The High Court quashed two identically worded FIRs registered on the same day against a professor. The High Court held that no cognizable offence was disclosed and that duplicate FIRs on the same allegations cannot stand. The High Court strongly deprecated the police practice of registering FIRs under appropriate…
Read the court recordThe High Court Division Bench upheld the dismissal of a battalion constable for unauthorized absence from duty. The High Court held that the misconduct of absence from General Roll Call without leave stood proved in the departmental inquiry. The High Court found no procedural unfairness where the constable offered no…
Read the court recordThe Meghalaya High Court dismissed the appeal of OC Ampati PS Nurul Islam, upholding his POCSO court conviction for detaining two minor sisters aged 13 and 17 at the station on 13 March 2013 and molesting them in his chamber, and raping the elder sister at her home on 31 March 2013. The Court rejected the defence that…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Meghalaya High Court records the following account. [name withheld] of the Meghalaya police was summarily dismissed on 15 January 2016 after a confidential report found he had passed information about police operations and movements to the banned Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) outfit, at a…
Read the court recordThe Meghalaya High Court (Division Bench) held that 18-year-old Class XII student, detained from the evening of 12-05-2014 and produced only on 14-05-2014, was beaten and assaulted by Tura police personnel and died on 20-05-2014 of injuries caused in police detention. The court relied on the CID investigation which…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Meghalaya High Court records the following account. Taxi driver [name withheld] was intercepted near Nongthymmai on 09.09.2011, taken to Madanriting Traffic Branch over an alleged traffic offence, and assaulted by UBC [name withheld] when he could produce only Rs. 170 of the demanded fine…
Read the court recordThe judgment of the Meghalaya High Court records the following account. On 14.05.2010, weekly market day at Langpih on the Assam-Meghalaya border, Assam Police personnel fired on civilians, killing a Langpih man, a Langpih man, a Langpih man and a Langpih man and injuring several others; Assam contended a mob had…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court (single judge) held that a Mairang man, 27, handed by the village durbar to Mairang police on 02-09-1998 on a cattle-theft suspicion, died of custodial violence, rejecting the State's malaria-death claim. The court relied on the District Judge's enquiry which found foul play, contradictory…
Read the court recordThe Gauhati High Court (single judge) held that 23-year-old businessman [name withheld], brutally assaulted by on-duty police at the Rangali Bihu venue on the night of 15-04-2002 and taken to the Laitumkhrah Beat House, died of those injuries on 18-04-2002. Relying on the magisterial enquiry and post-mortem report…
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