Farrukhabad SP asked to register FIR against investigating officer
PRAYAGRAJ, Nov. 7 -- The Allahabad high court directed the superintendent of police (SP), Farrukhabad, to register an FIR against an investigating officer (IO) after finding that additional particulars in the reasons for arrest column pertaining to an accused were inserted subsequently.
The court further declared the accused-petitioner's arrest unlawful and ordered his immediate release while holding that the reasons for arrest and grounds of arrest had not been communicated to him in accordance with law.
A division bench comprising justices Atul Sreedharan and Achal Sachdev observed that the investigating officer appeared to have committed an offence.
The court was hearing a habeas corpus plea filed by a Farukkhabad resident Mohd Yaseen, who was arrested on September 14, 2026, according to the arrest memo.
He claimed that he had actually been taken into custody on September 13, when he went to the police station with his lawyer to join the investigation into the death of the complainant's daughter. The complainant's daughter had allegedly died by suicide because of harassment by the petitioner.
The lower court had also rejected his bail application. However, the high court found that the arrest memo placed on record by the petitioner was deficient in material particularly relating to the reasons for arrest.
The state, however, submitted that the reasons for arrest had been separately prepared and supplied to the petitioner on September 14, 2026, and that the document purportedly bore his signature.
The court found that the arrest memo produced by the state was identical to the arrest memo supplied to the petitioner. However, the document with reasons for arrest of the petitioner was different.
Fixing November 16 for the next hearing, the high court in its November 4 order directed the SP to file a compliance report within seven days....
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