The Allahabad high court has requested the Director-general of Police, Uttar Pradesh Police to reveal the info of the internet site/platform from where facts concerning the criminal records of accused humans may be accessed by using the general public at large.
The Bench of Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta and Justice Om Prakash Tripathi additionally puzzled why facts relating to the crook records of a citizen aren't always within the public area and why its miles password covered.
basically, the Bench was coping with a crook attraction filed by using one Shamsher, when at the same time as coping with his bail plea, the courtroom become informed that he has a crook record such as 4 other cases, however, the same had not been disclosed within the instructions supplied to the authorities recommend in advance.
when you consider that confusion arose concerning the criminal records of the appellant, the courtroom asked the Sub-Inspector, Police Station Zarif Nagar, District Badaun, to be gift before the on January 10, 2022, alongside together with his explanation concerning the counter affidavit filed via him stated that "the appellant has no crook records to his credit".
similarly, the courtroom also directed the Superintendent of Police, Badaun to keep an inquiry, ascertain correct data and submit his report along with his affidavit.
"In case he involves the belief that the appellant had a crook history but it becomes not disclosed within the counter affidavit, he shall discover the character answerable for furnishing wrong statistics and take appropriate movement against him and apprise the courtroom of the same within the affidavit to be filed by using him," the court similarly directed.
Thereafter, the court made a question as to why the hunt document annexed with the counter affidavit does not suggest the criminal history of the appellant and whether or not the A.G.A. drafting the counter affidavit himself made seek to examine the correctness of the records being provided to him by means of the police or now not.
To this, S.A. Murtaza, A.G.A. submitted that the website of District Crime statistics Bureau (DCRB) and Crime and crook tracking community and structures (CCTNS) is not available via the workplace of the endorse preferred/government proposes and only the district police have to get admission to to the same.
In reaction to this submission, the court docket observed thus:
"We fail to understand why information relating to the criminal history of a citizen is not in the public domain and why it is password protected. We call upon the Director-General of Police to examine the said aspect and file his affidavit disclosing the website/platform from where such information could be accessed by the public at large. If no such access is available, he shall also disclose the remedial measures which he proposes to take."
Case title - Shamsher v. State of U.P
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