Observing that police cannot refuse to register a case on the ground that information given by the complainant is not reliable or credible, the Bombay High Court has directed city police to initiate an inquiry against three police officers of Andhra Pradesh for alleged extortion and threat.
“It is a well-established position that it is no business of a police officer to inquire as to whether the information laid before him is reliable or genuine and refuse to register a case on the ground that the information is not reliable or credible,” a division bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and P D Kode observed recently.
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