{2012 ‘rape/murder’ at dera} HC seeks DGP’s response on non-registration of FIR

The Punjab and Haryana high court has asked Punjab director general of police to explain what action has been taken against officers who approved closure of a case regarding mysterious death of a woman in 2012 allegedly at the dera of preacher Ranjit Singh Dhadrianwale. “Let an affidavit of the director general of police, Punjab, be filed explaining as to what action has been taken against the erring police officers/officials and as to whether the tendency of conducting preliminary inquiry to assess the veracity of allegation in the complaint has been stopped or not and if not, then why?” the bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Anil Kshetarpal observed while deferring the hearing of a case for December 9. in regard to an incident of rape and murder, the police embarked upon an illegal and unconstitutional inquiry to assess the veracity of the allegations,” the court further recorded asking the DGP to explain. On the last date of hearing, the court had termed police move to not to register the FIR a “extra-legal method of conducting probe without registration of a criminal case” and asked how the probe was conducted without an FIR into a case of alleged murder.