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Police directed to probe FIR filing

Staff Reporter

The offence was committed at Patiala last year
“The registration was the result of pressure or consideration”

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi police to probe the registration of an FIR by the Station House Officer (SHO) of the Malviya Nagar police station in a dowry demand case in which the offence was committed at Patiala in Punjab last year.

‘Issue guidelines’

Directing the Police Commissioner to institute an enquiry into the registration of the FIR, Justice S. N. Dhingra also asked the police chief to issue guidelines to all the police stations on registration of FIRs, particularly in cases where offences are committed outside Delhi.

Mr. Justice Dhingra said cases in which offences are committed outside the police jurisdiction of Delhi should be transferred to the police stations concerned.

The matter reached the High Court when the in-laws of the woman on whose complaint the FIR was registered filed a petition seeking quashing of the case.

“On the one hand the police refuse to register FIRs of residents of Delhi, on the other the Malviya Nagar SHO registered a case in a crime committed in Punjab. The registration of the case was the result of pressure or consideration,” Mr. Justice Dhingra observed.

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