Early Times Report
jammu, Oct 20: The State police headquarters (PHQ) is said to have issued a directive that all the cases of suspicious deaths would be probed by SHOs only.
The need to this effect was felt after the PHQ received repeated public complaints, alleging therein that thana police were not holding thorough probes into the cases of mysterious deaths, according to police sources.
While any written order was yet to be issued by PHQ, it was stated to have told senior officers of Jammu and Kashmir provinces to ensure that the cases of suspicious deaths were only handled by the SHOs, sources said.
At present, such cases were being handled in police stations by IOs of the rank of Havaldars and ASIs. As most of the times, such cases later turn out to be murder cases, only SHOs would handle them, the sources added, quoting PHQ.
In all the cases of suspicious deaths, police initiate proceedings under section 174 of CrPC. Havaldars or ASIs handle these cases but SHOs too probe into them only if these are of some high-profile nature. |
