Police Regulations
as “the personal records of criminals under surveillance”. Kharak Singh, who was
subjected to regular surveillance, including midnight knocks, moved this Court ... declaration that his fundamental rights were infringed. Among the measures of
surveillance contemplated by Regulation 236 were the following:
“(a) Secret picketing of the house
individual's name may be ordered to be entered in the
surveillance register, and he would be placed under regular
surveillance. Regulation 856 provides ... that such
surveillance, inter alia may consist of domiciliary visits
both by day and night at frequent but irregular intervals.
It was contended that
Scope-Right to freedom of
movement and personal liberty, whether infringed-
Surveillance-Whether infringes fundamental right-Consti-
tution of India, Arts ... veillance -is defined in Regulation 236 of the U. P. Police
Regulations. Surveillance involves secret picketing of the
house or approaches to the houses
found in certain sections of the Evidence Act only denote surveillance or restriction on the movement of the person concerned, which may be complete ... accused or that the accused person may be in some sort of surveillance at the time when he makes the confession would not ipso facto
history sheet against him and that he has been put under surveillance.
3. The petitioner says that the police are making domiciliary visits both ... determined to lead a criminal life and that he was put under surveillance in order to prevent him from committing offences.
5, Regulation 855 reads
petitioner's day-to-day life and such continuous surveillance would cause prejudice to the enjoyment of human rights of the petitioner ... privacy is not violated, if the citizen is subjected to life long surveillance by virtue of continuation of history sheet / rowdy sheet in the police
detention ;
b) arrest ;
c) circulation of name on website ; and
d) surveillance
which would amount to gross violations of law as the
appellant ... State without its consent.
(vi). C.B.I. had no jurisdiction of surveillance in terms of the Red
Corner Notice or Yellow Corner Notice issued
privacy of the citizen versus duty of the
police to prevent crime-Surveillance register to be
maintained by the police as per Punjab Police Rules ... Police Act, 1861, it will be necessary to keep discreet
Surveillance over reputed bad characters, habitual offenders
and other potential offenders. Organised crime cannot
list of
some 50,000 leaked numbers which were allegedly under
surveillance by clients of the NSO Group through the Pegasus
software. Initially ... Finally, he stated that
the Indian statutory and legal regime relating to surveillance and
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interception of communication is extremely rigorous, and no
illegal surveillance
addicted to or aid or
abet, the commission
of offence.
50.Keeping surveillance or vigil on a history-sheeted person should not
be made permanent ... part of the authority and it should
be on the basis of surveillance materials, where that a reasonable man would
by probable reasoning arrive
