Deputy Commissioner Of Police vs Badlu Paswan & Ors on 19 February, 2016
A standing committee of senior officers of the police and
prosecution departments, should be vested with aforesaid
responsibility. The consideration at the hands of the above
committee, should be utilized for crystalizing mistakes
committed during investigation, and/or prosecution, or both.
The Home Department of every State Government will
incorporate in its existing training programmes for junior
investigation/prosecution officials course content drawn from
the above consideration. The same should also constitute
course-content of refresher training programmes, for senior
investigating/prosecuting officials. The above responsibility for
preparing training programmes for officials, should be vested
in the same committee of senior officers referred to above.
Judgments like the one in hand (depicting more than 10 glaring
lapses in the investigation/prosecution of the case), and similar
other judgments, may also be added to the training
programmes. The course content will be reviewed by the above
committee annually, on the basis of fresh inputs, including
emerging scientific tools of investigation, judgments of Courts,
and on the basis of experiences gained by the standing
committee while examining failures, in unsuccessful
prosecution of cases. We further direct, that the above training
programme be put in place within 6 months. This would ensure
that those persons who handle sensitive matters concerning
investigation/prosecution are fully trained to handle the same.
Thereupon, if any lapses are committed by them, they would not
be able to feign innocence, when they are made liable to suffer
departmental action, for their lapses.