By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, Dec 24 : Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy of the AP High Court on Monday directed the DGP to issue a circular to all police stations across the state to direct them that registration of FIR is mandatory and police officers avoiding the same would face disciplinary proceedings.
While imposing a fine of Rs 20,000 on Vizianagaram police for not registering a case, the judge directed the DGP to issue a circular and report compliance to the court after four weeks.
The judge was disposing a plea by T.V.G, Chandrasekhar challenging the inaction of the police in not registering a case till date despite his complaint in May 2009 at L Kota police station.
P.S.P. Suresh Kumar, counsel for the petitioner contended that in a recent direction of the apex court the police officer cannot avoid registering an offence and action must be taken against erring officers if information received by him discloses a cognisable offence.
The Vizianagaram police told the court that they had registered the case and prior to that they had conducted a preliminary inquiry into contents of the complaint. Expressing displeasure at the apathy of the police in registering cases, the judge said that the scope of preliminary inquiry is not to verify the veracity or otherwise of the information received, but only to ascertain whether the information reveals any cognisable offence.
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