Following a High Court order, Rajasthan Police on Wednesday directed its personnel to not make any arrests in view of the pandemic in circumstances the place imprisonment extends as much as three years and that are triable by a First Class Magistrate.
In the order, issued by ADG Crime, Ravi Prakash, police personnel throughout the state have been instructed to not make any arrests in circumstances for the mentioned situations of crimes until July 17 “under any circumstances” as per the High Court order.
The order was handed by Justice Pankaj Bhandari on May 17 whereas listening to the anticipatory bail plea of 1 Than Singh, 25, a resident of Bharatpur, for offences underneath IPC sections 457 (lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by evening to be able to commit offence punishable with imprisonment), 354 (assault or prison pressure with intent to outrage modesty) in addition to the IT Act.
The court docket mentioned that on this explicit case, the utmost sentence, which can be awarded after conviction, could prolong to a few years and famous that there’s a “huge pendency of bail applications” and as many as 5 judges of the Jaipur Bench are listening to bail issues, along with different circumstances.
“Taking note of grave condition of the pandemic, lockdown and various guidelines issued by the State to restrict the number of employees coming to workplace, it was deemed proper to hear learned Additional Advocate General,” the court docket mentioned, and requested the AAG “whether the police, which is involved in other more important task of enforcing the lockdown, be directed not to arrest an accused charged with offence punishable with a term, which may extend up to 3 years till situation normalises and for the time being, till 17th of July, 2021, to which the learned AAG replied in affirmative.”
The court docket mentioned that it’s of the opinion that the arrests in circumstances the place a punishment is as much as three years and triable by a First Class Justice of the Peace, “will prove to be counter-productive”. “If a person, who is arrested and produced before the Magistrate and thereafter sent to jail is an asymptomatic carrier of Covid-19, the inmates may be put at risk.”
