New Delhi:
The Delhi High Court said on Tuesday that there had been “complete falsification of documents” by Uttar Pradesh police personnel, who arrested two residents here without informing local police and held them in illegal detention for two days.
Justice Mukta Gupta noted that according to the investigation of the Uttar Pradesh Police Department, the call records of the errant officials revealed that the two arrested persons – who were the brother and father of a boy who married a girl against the wishes of her family wishes – were taken from Delhi to Shamli in UP where they were arrested after two days and sent to jail after the failure of “talks” between the families.
The judge stated that “laxity” in the investigation was not the same as “forgery”, which is a criminal offense and if the two arrested persons did not languish in jail in time.
“From September 6 to 8, 2021, they (arrested persons) were in illegal detention. FIR was registered after they were taken. It is a complete forgery of documents. A to Z, every document is forged,” the court said. noticed.
“They should have told the Delhi police. They can’t detain and arrest people wherever they want,” it reads.
The petitioning couple had moved the Supreme Court because they claimed they married of their own accord in July last year, contrary to the wishes of the girl’s family, and have now received repeated threats from them.
During the proceedings, it was revealed that the boy’s father and brother had been taken away by UP police and their whereabouts had not been known for more than a month.
The Delhi Police subsequently informed the court that the boy’s relatives had been arrested by UP Police in connection with a complaint lodged by the girl’s mother under Section 366 IPC (kidnapping, kidnapping or coaxing of a woman to get her married, etc.) their arrival was made at the local station here.
Judge Gupta emphasized that when the FIR itself revealed that the girl in question was a major, the UP police officers involved should have established her will first, rather than take action against the boy’s family.
Additional Solicitor General for Uttar Pradesh Garima Prashad assured the court that erring officials will not be spared and appropriate measures will be taken.
The court closed the case and said that, given the AAG’s position, there were no more orders to be issued in the case.
It also appreciated the UP Police’s investigation and gave the petitioner’s family the freedom to appeal to the law against the individuals involved.
On October 26, the court had informed UP’s police of the petition, declaring that it was a banal law that persons under the jurisdiction of the Delhi Police Force could not be detained by them without alerting the local police.
It was “unfortunate” that even without finding the facts and whether the parties were large or small, arrests were made by UP police, the judge had noted.
On October 28, the court had called in the UP Police for the arrests and said that such illegal acts were not allowed and would not be tolerated here.
“I will request CCTV. I will conduct a departmental investigation if I see UP police arresting from Delhi… I want all CCTV footage and vehicle number. If I see UP Delhi police entering I will take action. We will do this not allowed You are not allowed to perform illegal acts here,” the court had said.
The court had requested an affidavit from the SHO on how the two individuals, now in judicial custody in UP, have been arrested and ordered that appropriate action be taken in view of the girl’s stance that she was out of her family home. ran away to marry to man.
In November, the Uttar Pradesh police had told the court that it had formed a special investigation team to investigate the arrest of two city residents and the case against the arrested persons was closed.
The court was also informed that the officials responsible had been suspended.
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