A file picture of the Lokayukta workplace in Bengaluru.
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The Lokayukta police on Thursday advised the High Court of Karnataka that every one the First Information Reports, besides in delicate instances that contain means of entice and raid by sustaining secrecy, are now being uploaded on the official web site inside 24 hours of registration of FIRs.
An affidavit on this regard has been filed by the Lokayukta police earlier than a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Prasanna B. Varale and Justice Ashok S. Kinagi in the course of the listening to of a PIL petition filed by Umapathi S., a city-based advocate.
The petitioner had complained that FIRs registered underneath the Prevention of Corruption Act weren’t being uploaded on the web site by the Lokayukta police, after the facility to research corruption instances was restored to the Lokayukta police after the High Court put aside the Anti-Corruption Bureau in August.
The petitioner had acknowledged that the Supreme Court had made it obligatory for all investigating businesses to add FIRs on their official web sites inside 24 hours of registration.
Meanwhile, the Lokayukta police, referring exceptions carved out by the Supreme Court from uploading FIRs inside 24 hours, have advised the High Court that FIRs in delicate instances are uploaded with some delay after the investigation reaches sure stage the place the general public show of FIRs won’t influence additional investigation.
The Bench disposed of the petition by recording the assertion of the Lokayukta police.
