Times of India: Nainital: Monday, June 12, 2017.
An RTI query
has revealed that in the past five years, as many as 50 'final reports'
submitted by Nainital Police were rejected in courts, which ordered them to
reinvestigate those cases.
The final
report is a document filed by police after an investigation in response to an
FIR within 90 days. The report is filed when police feel that the FIR has no
grounds and the case cannot be pursued further.
Haldwani-based
activist activist Gurvinder Chadha, who filed the RTI, said, "The court
rejecting so many final reports and asking police to reinvestigate those cases
imply indicates that police had either rushed through investigations to file a
final report, or had conducted investigations incompletely in the first
place."
"I was
'implicated' in a matter years ago, which the court dismissed. Then, I filed
the query to find out the efficiency of the district police," added
Chadha.
The maximum
number of final reports rejected by the courts were from Haldwani kotwali 31;
followed by Tallitaal police station in Nainital town and Lalkuan police
station in Lalkuan town four each; Mallitaal police station in Nainital town three;
Kaladhungi, Ramnagar and Kathgodam two each; and Bheemtaal and Mukhani police
stations one each.
The rejected
FIRs included serious offences such as murder, kidnapping and threatening, but
the police department refused to accpt shoddy investigations by them in those
cases.
Senior
superintendent of police Janmejay Khanduri said, "The complainant has
right to question an FIR registered by police, and it is up to courts to order
further action. We are committed to work efficiently, and comply by court's
orders."
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