Appearing on a petition filed by the Folks’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) relating to the current police capturing of a murder-accused man in Hubballi, the Karnataka Excessive Court docket on Tuesday directed the state to observe the Supreme Court docket tips on police encounters.
Accused of murdering a five-year-old woman, Bihar native Ritesh Kumar, 35, was shot within the leg and again throughout an escape bid the place he allegedly attacked police on April 13. In line with the police, he was later declared useless when taken to the Karnataka Medical School and Analysis Institute. He had been working as a labourer within the space for a couple of months.
Representing the PUCL, senior advocate Aditya Sondhi highlighted the need of registering an FIR after the incident and stated the physique of the accused must be subjected to a videographed postmortem. “There may be a fear of a cremation happening…at this stage, I’m requesting that the physique be preserved in order that the necessities could be met…,” Sondhi stated.
Advocate-Normal Shashikiran Shetty, representing the state, famous that an FIR had been registered and he handed over a duplicate of it to the courtroom. He stated the query of cremation wouldn’t come up, the rules had been being strictly adopted, and that at most a burial may very well be permitted. He additional stated the postmortem was not completed as a result of the physique was but to be recognized by family.
Having heard each side, a bench of Chief Justice N V Anjaria and Justice Okay V Aravind ordered, “The respondents (state) shall scrupulously adhere to the rules and instructions of the Apex Court docket in Folks’s Union of Civil Liberties v State of Maharashtra. It’s additional supplied that the physique of the accused can be subjected to postmortem by two docs from the native hospital….videography shall be undertaken. The authorities shall protect the samples collected through the autopsy to be made accessible for investigation.”
The matter is about to be heard additional on April 24.
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