{"id":265798,"date":"2023-10-21T19:02:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T13:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=265798"},"modified":"2023-10-21T19:02:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T13:32:27","slug":"not-just-a-case-about-improving-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/not-just-a-case-about-improving-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Not just a case about improving investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/strong>This post has been created based on the article \u201cNot just a case about improving investigation\u201d<\/strong> published in The Hindu <\/strong>on 21st October 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

UPSC Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 2 Governance \u2014 Role of civil services in a democracy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

News<\/strong>:\u00a0This article discusses the issue of poor quality of investigation in India. It also highlights the status of implementation of reforms such as the separation of investigative functions.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court of India, recently, in\u00a0Rajesh & Anr. vs The State of Madhya Pradesh<\/strong>, emphasised the need to devise \u2018a consistent and dependable code of investigation\u2019 so that the guilty do not walk free on technicalities.<\/p>\n

The Court also mentioned the poor standard of police investigation <\/strong>and the principal causes of a low rate of conviction due to inept and unscientific investigation<\/strong> by the police.<\/p>\n

What are the various official observations regarding the quality of police investigation?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

1) Malimath Committee:<\/strong> It recommended that the investigation wing should be separate from that of the law-and-order wing.<\/p>\n

2) Law Commission\u2019s Report number 239: <\/strong>observed that \u2018the police stations are understaffed\u2019, \u2018sufficient priority is not given for investigation of crime\u2019 and that \u2018there is no periodic exercise to upgrade the skills of investigation\u2019.<\/p>\n

3) Prakash Singh Case (2006): <\/strong>Out of the 7 directives by the Supreme Court, one pertained to a separation of investigation from law and order to ensure quicker investigation, better expertise and improved rapport with the people.<\/p>\n

What has been the response of the States in implementing these recommendations?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

According to Prakash Singh (Retd IPS)<\/strong>, only 17 states<\/strong> have taken measures to separate the investigative and law and order functions of the police.<\/p>\n

When it came to the overall 7 directives, only 9 States<\/strong> fell under the \u2018good and satisfactory\u2019 category.<\/p>\n

What should be done?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

1) Sanctioning of additional manpower:<\/strong> Investigating officers are not only inadequate in number but are also unable to upgrade their skills because there is a shortage of officers.<\/p>\n

2) Ensuring compliance: <\/strong>The Supreme Court needs to step forward and ask every State and Union Territory to report compliance of its directives on investigation.<\/p>\n

3) Consistency in rulings: <\/strong>There must be consistency in court rulings regarding Indian Evidence Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: This post has been created based on the article \u201cNot just a case about improving investigation\u201d published in The Hindu on 21st October 2023. UPSC Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 2 Governance \u2014 Role of civil services in a democracy. News:\u00a0This article discusses the issue of poor quality of investigation in India. It also highlights… Continue reading Not just a case about improving investigation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[300,212,10498],"class_list":["post-265798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-governance","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":168,"cached_at":1698376876,"cached_date":1698660008},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}