Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 664 · Decided 23 September 2014
People's Union for Civil Liberties & ANR. v. State of Maharashtra & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 664 · [2014] 12 S.C.R. 54
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1255/1999
- Decided
- 23 September 2014
- Bench
- RAJENDRA MAL LODHA, R.F. NARIMAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 174, 175, 176; Constitution Article 174, 175, 176
Headnote
Police encounters - Investigation - Procedure to be C followed in investigating police encounters - Issue as regards genuineness or otherwise of nearly 99. encounters between the Mumbai police and the alleged criminals resulting in death of about 135 persons between 1995 and 1997 High Court to the police of the State to follow certain D guidelines - SLP thereagainst as a/so other matters - Held: It is the constitutional duty of this Court to put in place certain guidelines adherence to which would help in bringing justice to the perpetrators of the crime who take law in
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