Police must respect woman's privacy: HC
Mumbai, July 14 -- Police cannot enter a woman's bedroom or seize her personal belongings during an investigation without following due process, the Bombay high court has observed, calling such action a "serious invasion of her privacy and dignity."
Justices Urmila Joshi Phalke and Nivedita Mehta directed the state to pay Rs.10,000 to compensate the 26-year-old petitioner for violating her constitutional rights, during a July 3 hearing.
The case arose from a January FIR over a road accident in which an unidentified four-wheeler allegedly fled after hitting a motorcyclist.
According to the petition, although the woman's husband was not named in the FIR, police repeatedly visited their home without a warrant, questioned her without a woman of...
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