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Pinky (Housewife)     06 January 2024

Criminal breach of trust

Police had taken custody of material electronic evidence related to crimes against women and s*xual harassment into his custody after gaining trust from the victim saying it would be produced before the court.

He then confessed before the case victim that he destroyed the evidence. but suppressed these facts before the court and made false claims that no such incident transpired.

The victim should file a case under

Breach of trust against police officers

Is sanction needed?

perjury under 340 Crpc R/W 195 crpc.

or

public record Act for destroying public records. 

does 



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 2 Replies

Purnanand Jha (Advocate)     06 January 2024

depends upon status of case.

Its  destruction and omission of evidence but how will you prove that the electronic documents have been taken by police from your possession ?

Any way you can approch court.

Dr. J C Vashista (Advocate )     07 January 2024

Any document or property siezed, collected or received by police in investigation / prosecution will be prepared / accepted with siezer memo, which would form part of charge sheet.


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