The Gauhati High Court has pulled up the Assam Police for creating a post-investigation FIR, in connection with the murder of a person, to justify the detention of a woman along with her infant at Bilasipara Police Station in Dhubri district.
Gauhati High Court Pulls Up Assam Police
A bench of Chief Justice Sandeep Mehta and Justice Devashis Baruah on June 16 observed that such a procedure is totally alien to the principles of criminal jurisprudence.
The order stated, ”We are constrained to observe that from the pleadings and the documents available on record, it is clear as daylight that the officers of the Bilasipara Police Station, namely, Shri Manash Jyoti Saikia, Sub-Inspector and Shri Jyotirmoy Gayan, Officer-in-Charge, have created a post-investigation FIR on 31.05.2023 in spite of the fact that 2 (two) previous FIRs had already been registered in relation to the killing of Baser Ali. It clearly appears that this FIR was registered so as to somehow the other justify the arrest of Rokiya Khatun. Such a procedure is totally alien to the principles of criminal jurisprudence.”
Reportedly, the woman was a lactating mother, who was kept in detention for around six days over allegations of involvement in a murder case, even though no FIR was registered before her arrest.
This prompted her brother to approach the Gauhati High Court for relief. The High Court was prompted to pull up the Police for taking pride in registering a post-investigation FIR on June 16.