Udhampur Police to Monitor Performance of Investigating Officers

District Police to Ensure Strict Compliance of Apex Court Judgement  

‘Refresher Courses for IOs, POs ’

Jammu, 01/Nov/2015: District Police Headquarters Udhampur has constituted a standing committee under the chairmanship of additional SP that would ensure refresher courses for Investigation and Prosecuting Officers of the District Udhampur in the light of the Supreme Court Judgement wherein the supreme court besides various other directions have also asked for organizing training programs for IOs and POs, while deciding the case titled State of Gujarat Vs Kishanbhai, the highest court has observed “Every acquittal should be understood as a failure of the justice delivery system, in serving the cause of justice. Likewise, every acquittal should ordinarily lead to the inference, that an innocent person was wrongfully prosecuted. It is therefore, essential that every State should put in place a procedural mechanism, which would ensure that the cause of justice is served, which would simultaneously ensure the safeguard of interest of those who are innocent. 

In furtherance of the above purpose, it is considered essential to direct the Home Department of every State, to examine all orders of acquittal and to record reasons for the failure of each prosecution case. A standing committee of senior officers of the police and prosecution departments, should be vested with aforesaid responsibility “.

The DPO Udhampur has constituted the panel vide their office order no, PA/order/2015/34994-96 dated 06/10/2015, this  committee  would also monitor the performance of Investigating and Prosecuting Officers.

The Constitution of this panel by the Udhampur Police has come into reality only after the intervention of the Jammu and Kashmir State Information Commission, wherein while deciding a complaint case of Information seeker Raman Sharma, the Chief Information Commissioner asked the State Home Department and the Jammu and Kashmir Police Headquarters to ensure strict compliance of all the recommendations of the Supreme Court of India in the case of State of Gujarat Vs Kishanbhai which calls for special attention of the Police administration of each district to strictly examine all cases of acquittal in a criminal case.

 The information regarding constitution of the Standing Committee headed by additional SP Udhampur is being provided to the applicant Raman Sharma by Gourav Mahajan, PIO DSP Headquarters Udhampurs cum PIO vide his office letter no. HQU/2015/RTI/12601-04 dated 08/10/2015. It is pertinent to mention here that recently DPO Kathua has also constituted the similar panel in compliance of the Apex Court’s Direction.