complaint contains allegations against any police
officer of or above the rank of Deputy Superintendent of
Police the District Police Complaints Authority, shall forward ... types of cases of "serious misconduct" and
"misconduct" forwarded by it to the State Police Complaints
Authority during the year
during the course of discharge of his
duties. The misconduct is that being a Police Officer,
petitioner has taken law into his own hands ... find out whether the petitioner is guilty of
misconduct as a Police Officer. Whereas, the proceeding
in the criminal trial is to find out whether
Jayaramaiah, Police Inspector of
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Nandini Layout Police Station would
amount to misconduct?
b) Whether the impugned order of penalty ... call the police for whatsoever
reason. Mere calling the police when a matter is under
investigation would definitely amount to misconduct or
unbecoming
that the
petitioner had not informed his arrest by Police which
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amounted misconduct or indiscipline. Learned counsel
would submit that wife of the petitioner ... authorities about his arrest by the Police. Non-
disclosing his arrest by the police itself is indiscipline and
misconduct. Thus, prays for dismissal
against any Police Officer of the rank above
the Deputy Superintendent of Police, the authority
shall forward the same to the State Police Complaints
Authority ... that if the
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complaint makes out a serious misconduct, the
District Police Complaints Authority shall forward the
same to the State Police Complaints Authority
Karnataka
Police Act, 1963, which provides for the District Police Complaints
Authority to look into complaints against police officers of and
below the rank ... cognizance of allegations of serious misconduct by police officers,
including incidents involving death, grievous hurt, or rape in police
custody. Therefore, the appropriate remedy
City appoints Assistant Commissioner of
Police to enquire into the allegations against the
Deputy Commissioner of Police and the Police
Inspector, by the next date ... registers a complaint before
the Director General of Police and Inspector
General of Police alleging certain misconduct on
the part of the police
Rama vs Superintendent Of Police, Kolar And ... on 9 November, 1966
Equivalent citations: AIR1967KANT220, AIR1967MYS220, 1967CRILJ1543, AIR 1967 MYSORE 220
JUDGMENT
Somnath Iyer ... petitioner who was a police constable in the Chickballapur town police station was charged with misconduct in a disciplinary proceeding which was commenced against
COURT OF ANDHRA PRADESH, the Supreme Court held thus:
"Police exaggerations of prospective misconduct of the accused, if enlarged, must be soberly sized ... injustice creep subtly into the discretionary curial technique. Bad record and police prediction of criminal prospects to invalidate the bail plea are admissible in principle
evening at 6.00 p.m.,
in the Gandhi Gunj police station
Bidar, accused No.1/appellant being a
public servant demanded and accepted
illegal gratification ... 3563/2012 being public
servants working as police constables
committed the offence of criminal
misconduct by corrupt or illegal means
obtaining an illegal gratification
