Police custody;
(b) rape;
(c) grievous hurt in Police custody.
13. Recommendations of State Police Complaints
Authority:- (1) Any complaint of serious misconduct
received ... Police shall be the members.
15. Functions of District Police Complaints
Authority:- (a) The District Police Complaints Authority
shall enquire into allegations of misconduct
Police Complaints Authority. Under
the said provision two different committees are to be formed namely,
The State Police Complaint Authority and The District police complaint ... forexamining and
inquiring into the complaints on all types of misconduct against police
officers of and above the rank of Superintendent of Police. The main
Police Complaints Authority. Under
the said provision two different committees are to be formed
namely, The State Police Complaint Authority and The District police
complaint ... examining and inquiring into the complaints on all types of
misconduct against police officers of and above the rank of
Superintendent of Police. The main
against the accused. The Act also creates a new offence of criminal misconduct by public servants though to some extent it overlaps ... prescribing that the investigation against them could be made only by police officials of particular status and by making the sanction of the Government
guilty of misconduct, vide order in Rc.No.B1/1361/EOW/2007 dated 11.02.2008, the Inspector General of Police, EOW-II, Chennai ... illegal detention, etc, the Inspector General of Police, EOW-II, Chennai-2, has dealt with the misconduct in a very light manner describing
misconduct which by no stretch of imagination can be considered act of gross misconduct or continued misconduct indicating incorrigibility and complete unfitness for police service ... grave nature or as cumulative effect of continued misconduct proving incorrigibility of complete unfitness for police service. Merely one incident of absence and that
appellant is disproportionate to the alleged misconduct and when Section 11(1) of Central Reserve Police Act, 1949 speaks only about the minor penalty, dismissal ... Central Reserve Police Rules, 1955, empowers the authority, to impose a punishment of dismissal for misconduct of overstayal or unauthorised absence.
10. It is well
action. In the reported case, the
appellant therein was Sub-Inspector of Police. He along with another Head
Constable, were required to proceed from Chandigarh ... result, the appellant, Sub-
Inspector of Police, was punished, whereas perpetrator of misconduct i.e., Head
Constable was let-off both in the criminal case
minor charge in respect of an alleged misconduct of not checking up the weapons available in the Police Station and therefore, as per the guidelines ... Disciplinary authority, the Superintendent of Police, Thanjavur, dated 15.06.1994 was subsequently modified on appeal by the DIG of Police, on 19.12.1994 to that
mind of the Senior Superintendent of Police as absence from duty is a misconduct. The High Court has further gone on to hold that there ... permission from the senior officers, a serious act of misconduct according to the police discipline rules. In these circumstances, the respondent was dismissed from service
