Supreme Court of India
People's Union for Civil Liberties & Anr. v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that it would be useful and effective to structure appropriate guidelines to restore faith of the people in police force.
Judgment, page 23
From the headnote
Police encounters - Investigation - Procedure to be followed in investigating police encounters - Issue as regards genuineness or otherwise of nearly 99. encounters between the Mumbai police and the alleged criminals resulting in death of about 135 persons between 1995 and 1997 - Direction by the High Court to the police of the State to follow certain guidelines - SLP thereagainst as a/so other matters - Held: It is the constitutional duty of this Court to put in place certain guidelines adherence to which would help in bringing justice to the perpetrators of the crime who take law in their
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Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Arif Md. Yeasin Jwadder v. State of Assam and Ors.
- 2023 People’s Union for Civil Liberties and Anr. v. The State of Maharashtra and Ors.
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