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HAND CUFF OF ACCUSED POLICE PROBLEM

REGARDING NOHAND CUFFS OF ACCUSED IN MAGISTRATE CUSTODY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS FACING PROBLEMS AND RISK OF RUNING AND ABSCONDING OF ACCUSED CHARGED UNDER SERIOUS OFFENCES LIKE MURDER,DECOITY,RAPE,ROBBERY .FOR ATTENDING ON COURT DATES ACCUSED ARE BROUGHT FROM JAIL TO COURT BUT POLICE  ARE FACING RISK OF ACCUSED RUNNING AWAY IF THEY ARE NOT HAND CUFFED. PROPER LEGAL REMEDY AND AMMEMENT IN THE LAW PROVISIONS ESSENTIAL OR ELSE IT MAY CREATE A BIG PROBLEM IN FUTURE. POOR POLICE CONSTABLES AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS WILL HAVE TO FACE HARDSHIPS IN CASE OF SUSPENSION OF POLICE CONSTABLES DUE TO ACCUSED RUNNING FROM CUSTODY.COMMENT.



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PARTHA P BORBORA (advocate)     18 June 2009

In my opinion, police can apply a various types to steps to prevent the accused persons from running away from custody. No handcuff rule was laid to protect the dignity of life of an accused, as there is every possibility of the accused may acquit in the trial. So a under trial prisoner has a right to protect his dignity of human life. Life does not mean mere physical human existence; life means physical human existence with the dignity of life.  So, a under trial prisoner should not be hand cuff.

Shree. ( Advocate.)     21 June 2009

Handcuffing -Guidelines of the Supreme Court:


As a police officer is vested with power to restrain a person by handcuffing him, there is simultaneous restraint by the law on the police officer as to the exercise of the power. The handcuffs should not be used in routine manner. The minimum freedom of movement which even an under trial prisoner is entitled to under Article 19 of the Constitution, cannot be cut down cruelly by application of handcuffs or other hoops. [Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration -AIR 1978 SC 1675].

Involvement of the prisoner in a score of criminal cases is no ground for handcuffing. Nor can a person be handcuffed only because he is charged with a grave offence. It cannot be used only for the convenience of the escort party. The rules, regulations and manuals of various states authorising the police to use handcuffs have been struck down as violative of Article 14 of the Constitution of India. [Prem Shankar Shukla v. Delhi Administration -AIR 1980 SC 1535].

 Use of Handcuffs -conditions for: The handcuffs can be used by the escorting police party if the prisoner is dangerous and desperate, or if the prisoner is likely to break out of custody or play the vanishing trick. The escorting party must form the opinion on the basis of antecedents of the prisoner. [Prem Shankar Shukla v. Delhi Administration -AIR 1980 SC 1535]. The escorting authority should record contemporaneously the reasons for handcuffing an under trial prisoner even in extreme cases and intimate the court, so that the court may consider the circumstances and issue necessary directions to the escort party. [Sunil Gupta v. State of M.P. -1990 SCC (Cr.) -440].


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