Seized vehicles cannot lie in front of police stations, should be released immediately: K’taka HC
Says police cannot keep possession of vehicles on ground of identification of vehicle during trial
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday said the vehicles seized in criminal cases by owners cannot lie in front of police stations on the ground of identification of the vehicle during the trial of the case.
The HC was hearing a plea against a trial court order rejecting an application made under Sections 451 and 457 of the Criminal Procedure Code, for the release of a vehicle seized in a criminal case, by owners, on grounds of identification of vehicles.
A single judge bench of Justice K.Natarajan allowed the petition filed by Javvaji Dhana Theja and others and set aside the order dated 05.04.2022, by which their application for release of seized vehicles was rejected, a live law report added.
The Bench also referred the Supreme Court judgment in the case of Sunderbhai Ambalal Desai vs State Of Gujarat reported in (2002) 10 SCC 382, wherein the court has said that vehicles shall not be allowed to lie idle in front of the police station. The Magistrate or the Court shall dispose of the application for releasing the vehicles to the RC owners, by imposing certain conditions.
"Such being the case, the trial court rejecting the application for releasing the vehicle is not correct and if the vehicles are allowed to lie in front of the police station, there may be wear and tear and it cannot be possible for the police to bring the vehicles to the court for the purpose of identification.” The court said.
Accordingly, it directed the trial court to release the vehicle to the petitioners by taking out indemnity bonds with surety for the like sum to the satisfaction of the trial court.
Further, the investigation officer was directed to release the vehicle by taking out the photographs of the vehicles from different angles along with the panchnama and producing the same before the trial court for the purpose of identification.
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Over 17,000 people went missing in Delhi in 2024: NCRB
New Delhi (PTI): A total of 23,058 people, comprising 9,482 men and 13,576 women, were reported missing in Delhi in 2024, according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
Of the total, 5,491 were children below the age of 18 — 1,571 boys, 3,920 girls.
The city recorded 17,567 fresh adult missing persons cases in 2024, comprising 7,911 men and 9,656 women.
According to the NCRB data, released on Wednesday, 14,637 men, 18,238 women and six transgender persons were still missing from previous years.
At the latest count, in 2024, Delhi had a total of 55,939 missing persons cases — 24,119 men, 31,814 women and six transgender persons.
In 2024, police traced or collected 28,392 missing persons, including 12,182 men, 16,208 women and two transgender persons.
Only half of the men and half of the women who went missing could be traced.
A total of 27,547 missing persons – 11,937 men, 15,606 women, four transgender persons — were yet to be untraced by the end of the year, the data showed.
The data also revealed that 5,352 children from previous years remained untraced at the beginning of 2024.
The number of still missing boys was 1,621, and the number of missing girls was 3,729. Two transgender children were yet to be found.
After adding the pending cases from previous years, the total number of missing children cases handled in 2024 rose to 10,843.
The police traced or recovered 6,762 missing children — 2,030 boys, 4,732 girls.
The recovery rate stood at 63.6 per cent for boys and 61.9 per cent for girls, while no transgender child was traced.
By the end of 2024, a total of 4,081 children remained untraced, 1,162 of them boys, 2,917 girls, and two transgender children.
