The Madras High Court has started an exercise to find a solution to a major complaint received by it quite often in the criminal jurisdiction. It has decided to end the practice of the police and the trial court staff blaming each other over filing and acceptance of final reports in criminal cases.
Justice N. Sathish Kumar has called for individual reports from all Principal District and Sessions Courts as well as the Chief Judicial Magistrates in the State, listing the number of criminal cases in which the police had filed final reports that were pending with the court staff without being taken on file.
The judge issued a similar direction to the Director-General of Police and asked him to spell out the number of cases in which the final reports had not been taken on file by the trial courts. He made it clear that the reports from the judicial officers as well as the DGP should reach the High Court by August 16.
