Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label nhrc

Mathura Incident : Time to rethink or perish

Few days ago on 2th June 2016 two brave police officers , one SP city Mukul Dwivedi and one SHO Santosh Kumar Yadav ,lost their life as a result of unprovoked firing from miscreants during evacuation of jawahar park of Mathura and more than 20 miscreants died during vacuation due to various reasons. Unexpectedly Huge amount of arms and ammunition also been recovered after the evacuation. After this incident people from all areas particularly media and politicians started giving their views on this particular incident. Almost everyone expressed their grief for the martyr policemen and their family and hailed their bravery. Also almost everyone questioned the functioning of police and their intelligence system , local administration, politicians who let the miscreants led by one ram vriksha yadav to occupy the park since more than two years. For all the above questions raised there will be a magisterial or probably judicial inquiry will be done along with probable CBI inquiry and m...

Guidelines for Lie Detection / Narco analysis / Polygraphy etc Test

Supreme Court in Smt Selvi & Ors vs State of Karnataka (Criminal Appeal No. 1267 of 2004) on 5th May 2010 held that:  No individual should be forcibly subjected to any of the techniques in question, whether in the context of investigation in criminal cases or otherwise. Doing so would amount to an unwarranted intrusion into personal liberty. However, the court allowed voluntary administration of the impugned techniques in the context of criminal justice, provided that certain safeguards are in place. Even when the subject has given consent to undergo any of these tests, the test results by themselves cannot be admitted as evidence because the subject does not exercise conscious control over the responses during the administration of the test. However, any information or material that is subsequently discovered with the help of voluntary administered test results can be admitted, in accordance with Section 27 of the Evidence Act, 1872. The National Human Rights Commission ...