Madhya Pradesh Police Regulation: Chapter VII Part 111
Rule 465--Prisoners-handcuffs--Use of--Directions by
Court--Person remanded by judicial order--Escort party ... inside or outside the Court, that would not be
sufficient cause to handcuff them. Further, there was no
reason for handcuffing them while taking them
Preamble. [868 A-B,
867 G-H]
6. The collection of handcuff law, namely, Prisoners
(Attendance in Courts) Act, 1955 ; Punjab Police Rules ... Standing order 44, Instruction on handcuffs of November,
1977, and orders of April 1979, must meet the demands of
Articles 14 , 19 and 21. Irons
prisoner in
transit between prison house and court house, is freedom from handcuffs and
the exception, under conditions of judicial supervision we have indicated
earlier ... interrogate the prisoner, as a rule, whether he has been subjected to
handcuffs or other "irons" treatment and, if he has been
Even the
accused persons were produced before the
learned Judicial Magistrate in handcuffs and
by granting police remand the learned
Magistrate keeping in view ... signed statement, Khemla described what
happened:
Vinod Kumar unlocked my handcuffs and then
with the aid of Policeman Bhoi and Town
Inspector Ansari, grabbed
Ashwini
Chhatre were handcuffed and taken into the hosp-
ital. Handcuffs were removed during the examina-
tion. They were handcuffed again and taken to
court ... back to
court.
8.2.93 - Motla and Punia were taken through Alirajpur in
handcuffs.
24.2.93 - Rahul Banerjee was handcuffed and paraded in
Alirajpur.
25.2.93 - Rahul Banerjee
humans shall not
be dichotomised and the common run discriminated
against regarding handcuffs. The provisions in para
26.22 that every under-trial who is accused ... summary
hearing and direction by the court where the victim
is produced. ... Handcuffs are not summary
punishment vicariously imposed at police level, at
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once
Shekhar Shetty, PW 13, when he was in
handcuffs, there was another policeman in the same room
holding the chain of his handcuff, and even ... recorded and there
was another policeman with the chain of his handcuff at some
distance in the room and there were armed guard outside
violative of human dignity, within
and without prisons. The indiscriminate
resort to handcuffs when accused persons are
taken to and from court and the expedient ... Punjab Jail Manual, 3 types of irons are
mentioned; handcuffs weighing 2 Ibs., link fetters weighing
2 Ibs and bar fetters weighing 5 Ibs. Section
Constable and
that he was sent to Hospital for Medical Examination under
handcuffs. A photographer was arranged to take his photo-
graph which was published ... spector S.R. Sharma got the Chief Judicial Magistrate photo-
graphed in handcuffs with rope tied around his body along-
with the constables which were
humanist
creed of that Article.
This Court has frowned upon handcuffs save in the
'rarest of rare' cases where security will be seriously ... since policemen who beat those in their
custody may with easy conscience handcuff and footcuff their
charges, a course contrary to Art. 21.
The harrowing
