Overview
- Justice Praveen Kumar Giri directed the DGP to instruct all officers to file a written complaint against informants and witnesses whenever a closure report clears an accused.
- Judicial Magistrates must receive the full case diary and refuse any final report not accompanied by such a complaint.
- All measures must be implemented within 60 days, with non-compliance inviting departmental action, possible prosecution under BNS Section 199(b), and contempt proceedings.
- The court specified filing complaints under BNSS Sections 212 and 217 against those who furnished false or misleading information.
- The ruling stemmed from Umme Farva’s petition in an Aligarh marital dispute, with the High Court quashing a summons after the IO filed a closure report without a complaint against the informant.