The Delhi Police has more than its hands full. With around 2.7 lakh cases in which investigation is pending and are placed in the untraced category, the police have written a letter to the Registrar General of the Delhi High Court, Dinesh Kumar Sharma, requesting him to form a central registry in every city court so that these cases can be disposed off.
The force will write to Sharma to establish and maintain a central registry in all the five district courts — Saket, Patiala House, Karkardooma, Dwarka, and Rohini — wherein they can submit the cancelled and untraced cases. In Delhi, there are in total, 2,70,087 pending investigation cases out of which 27,452 are in the cancelled category and rest are in the untraced category.
According to a senior police officer, the cases currently pending include heinous crimes such as murder, rape, and dacoity.
Untraced cases are those where the scope for a further probe is not there and the cancelled cases are those wherein both the accused and the victim have mutually agreed to end the case.
As per the data, the maximum number of pending investigation cases are in East Delhi with 41,643 cases, followed by North East Delhi with 37,105 cases. North-west Delhi stands third with 36,627 cases.
With the constitution of the central registry, the Delhi police will be able to dispose of untraced cases lying across 182 police stations in the city. "With the formation of the central registry, the police will able to deposit the case in court and the investigating officers do not have run from one court room to another to submit the untraced and cancelled cases," said a senior police officer.
The decision was taken after Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik — during a law and order review meeting last month recently — directed department officers to launch a special drive for the disposal of all pending cases.
District Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs) should launch a special drive to finalise investigation cases and significant progress should be achieved by June 30, 2017," Patnaik said. He also directed all Joint Commissioners of Police heading various law and order ranges to organise meetings with sub-divisional police officers, in order to ensure progress in pending cases.
Much to their relief...
With the constitution of the central registry, Delhi police will be able to dispose of untraced cases lying across 182 police stations in the city.
Now, investigating officers wouldn’t have to run from one court room to another to submit untraced and cancelled cases.
Untraced cases are those where there isn’t scope for further probe. Cancelled cases are those where both accused and victim agree to end the case.
