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SC stays proceedings in connection with FIR

01:03 AM Jan 17, 2024 IST | GK NEWS SERVICE
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New Delhi, Jan 16: The Supreme Court has stayed proceedings regarding an FIR against a police constable who is accused of cutting his private part using a shaving razor blade in a barrack in Kupwara last year.

According to police, the act on part of the constable was an attempt to commit suicide and as such necessitated registration of FIR under Section 309 of the IPC.

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“…In the meantime, there shall be a stay of all further proceedings in connection with FIR No.32/2023 dated 26.02.2023, registered with Kupwara Police Station, District Kupwara, Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir,” a bench of Justice Aniruddha Bose and Justice Sanajy Kumar said. The Court passed the order on an SLP after hearing Senior Advocate B A Bashir along with Advocate-on-Record Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki who appeared for the constable. It listed the matter after four weeks. The petitioner-constable has challenged an order whereby the J&K and Ladakh High Court refused to quash the FIR against him under Section 309 IPC, stating that the investigation in the case was at an early stage. Being aggrieved, the constable approached the Apex Court. The High Court had also directed the Senior Superintendent of Police to conduct a thorough investigation into the allegations of custodial torture.

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