HC ordersFIR 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 under chapter XIV of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which deals with false evidence and offences against public justice.
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.
However, in his petition, he claimed that he had actually been taken into custody on September 13, when he went to the police station along 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.
Deprecating the police action, the court observed that the IO had apparently fabricated evidence to satisfy the requirements relating to the reasons for arrest and the arrest memo, which had never been supplied to the petitioner....
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