The government has shaped two committees at the district and ministry levels to counsel the withdrawal of harassment cases filed in opposition to political leaders, activists, and harmless folks for political vendetta or alternative causes.
The Public Security Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs issued a circular on this regard at the present time (22 September).
Primarily basically based on the circular, the district-stage committee is chaired by the district Justice of the Peace, with the superintendent of police (deputy commissioner of police in metropolitan areas) and the public prosecutor (metropolitan public prosecutor for cases in metropolitan areas) as members.
The additional district Justice of the Peace serves because the member-secretary of the committee.
Moreover, the ministry-stage committee is chaired by the Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs adviser.
Its members embrace the senior secretary, additional secretary (law and repeat), and joint secretary (law) from the Public Security Division, alongside with a consultant from the Ministry of Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs (now not below the sinister of joint secretary).
The committee’s member-secretary is the deputy secretary, senior assistant secretary, or assistant secretary of the Public Security Division’s Law-1 Branch, the circular added.
The district-stage committee will submit solutions for withdrawing politically motivated cases to the district Justice of the Peace by 31 December. The Justice of the Peace will then forward these solutions to the public prosecutor or metropolitan public prosecutor within seven enterprise days for his or her merely notion.
The public prosecutor must return their notion to the district Justice of the Peace within 15 working days.
Upon receiving the notion, the district Justice of the Peace will demonstrate the appliance to the district committee within 7 working days.
The district Justice of the Peace will then ship the advice to government, alongside with the FIR, price sheet, and an well-known recordsdata, to the Ministry of Home Affairs within forty five working days, following a specified structure.
Later, the ministry-stage committee will review the solutions from the district committees, title cases eligible for withdrawal, and prepare a list accordingly.
The circular additional acknowledged that cases falling below the Anti-Corruption Payment Act, 2004 cannot be withdrawn without a written directive from the associated price, as per Allotment 10 (4) of the Prison Law Amendment Act, 1958.
“These cases can be flagged and listed individually, with additional actions to make sure at a later stage.”
