Cops Instructed To Give Priority To Court Proceedings: State Tells Bombay HC After Objections Over "Less Weightage" Given To Court
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Cops Instructed To Give Priority To Court Proceedings: State Tells Bombay HC After Objections Over "Less Weightage" Given To Court

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The Maharashtra Government recently informed the Bombay High Court that the State's Director General of Police would soon be issuing a circular instructing the police officers across the State to take court proceedings 'seriously' and to give it 'priority' over other works. This comes after a division bench of Justices Bharati Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande on December 3, expressed displeasure over police officers giving "very less weightage" to the Court proceedings, as they are busy in other duties and imposed costs of Rs 20,000 on the State over the failure of an investigating officer to appear before it in relation to a petition filed way back in 2012. We are sensitive to the fact that law and order is an important sovereign task which is entrusted to the Police Department but since they are also investigating officers in several crimes and are respondents in various proceedings filed before the Court, without their instructions or co-operation and in their absence proceedings cannot leap forward, as we never intend to have one sided decisions based upon the pleadings in the petition and expect an appropriate response from the respondents, the investigating officers, or the party who face certain allegations," the bench had stated in the order passed on December 3. When the matter was re-notified recently on December 9, APP Deshmukh informed the bench that the DGP would be issuing a circular asking officers to take court proceedings seriously and give priority to it, over other works.

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