Terming it as a ‘disturbing trend’, the Allahabad High Court slammed Uttar Pradesh police for ‘chasing couples virtually investigating marriages” rather investigating crimes with ‘which their hands are full’’.
A bench of Justice J.J. Munir and Justice Tarun Saxena, in its order dated April 21, directed the Director General of Police (DGP), Uttar Pradesh, to take corrective steps to address practices in which police chase young couples who have married of their own will.
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“We find a disturbing trend these days where the Police, as in the present case, are registering FIRs and chasing couples virtually investigating marriages, instead of investigating crimes with which their hands are full. They are wasting their time in business which is not their’s. On account of these indiscretions by the Police, our dockets also swell with cases that are really not causes worth coming to Court, but become so on account of the Police taking actions at the stage of registration of the FIR and post that event which they ought not have done at all,” the bench noted.
The matter pertains to an FIR lodged by Saharanpur police on the complaint of the woman’s father who alleged abduction of his daughter by the man she married.
