Chandigarh, Nov. 4 -- Pulling up the UT Police over a three-year delay in completing an investigation, a local court has directed the deputy inspector general (DIG) to examine the practice of sending final investigation reports to senior police officers for approval before filing them before the court.

Judicial magistrate first class Kuldeep Singh, while hearing a petition filed by complainant Kali Charan seeking monitoring of the investigation in a 2023 FIR registered at Manimajra police station, observed that the practice of seeking approval from superior officers had no apparent legal basis and was causing unnecessary delays in investigations.

The FIR, registered on January 26, 2023, related to a cheating and forgery case.

The court...