Writ Petition - Main File - For Petitioner
Writ Petition - Main File - For Petitioner
Writ Petition - Main File - For Petitioner
INDIVA
- IN THE MATTER OF -
ARTICLE 14, ARTICLE 19 AND ARTICLE 21 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF
INDIVA
- BETWEEN -
1. SAMAN ADHIKAR
BLOCK C, 3RD FLOOR,
ANKARA …. PETITIONER NO. 1
AND
1. STATE OF ANKARA
Rep. by its Secretary
Ministry of Home & Affairs,
3rd Block, Ankara. ….. RESPONDENT NO. 1
2. UNION OF INDIVA
Rep. by its Secretary
Ministry of Home & Affairs,
North Block, New Delhi. ..… RESPONDENT NO. 2
3. UNION OF INDIVA
Ministry of Law & Justice,
Shashthri Bhavan,
New Delhi – 110 001. ..… RESPONDENT NO. 3
4. CHIEF SECRETARY
Govt. of Ankara
Block C, 2nd Floor, Ankara Secretariat,
Ankara – 360 017. ..… RESPONDENT NO. 4
6. V. C. SAJJANAR, IPS,
Commissioner of Police, CYBERABAD
P/21, Old Mumbai Hwy,
Next to care Hospital 2-48,
Sri Shyam Nagar,
Telecom Nagar Extension,
Gachibowli, Ankara – 300 032. ..… RESPONDENT NO. 6
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MEMORANDUM ON BEHALF OF THE PETITIONER DRAWN
AND FILED BY THE COUNSEL FOR THE PETITIONER WRIT
PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 32 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF
INDIVA READ WITH ORDER XXXVIII, RULE 12 (1) (D) & 2
OF THE SUPREME COURT RULES, 2013 TO ISSUE AN
APPROPRIATE WRIT OR ORDER OR DIRECTION
ESPECIALLY IN THE NATURE OF WRIT OF
CERTIORARIFIED MANDAMUS CALLING FOR THE
RECORDS OF 2ND TO 7TH RESPONDENTS / ANKARA STATE
AUTHORITIES PERTAINING TO THE FAKE ENCOUNTER
KILLING OF ALLEGED 4 RAPE ACCUSED BY THE POLICE
PERSONALS OF 4TH RESPONDENT, V. C. SAJJANAR, IPC,
CYBERABAD POLICE COMMISSIONER, ANKARA STATE
AND ORDERED FOR REGISTRATION OF FIR FOR AN
OFFENCE UNDER SECTION 302 AND 376 OF IPC,
CYBERABAD POLICE COMMISSIONER WHO INVOLVED IN
THE ABOVE SAID FAKE ENCOUNTER KILLING OF
ALLEGED 4 RAPE ACCUSED SHALL BE CONDUCTED BY
AN INDEPENDENT AGENCY LIKE CBI, SIT, CID OR ANY
OTHER POLICE TEAM OF ANOTHER STATE POLICE
UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF A SENIOR OFFICER (AT
LEAST A LEVEL ABOVE THE HEAD OF THE POLICW PARTY
ENGAGED IN THE ENCOUNTER AND GET THE
CONCERNED POLICE OFFICIALS WHO INVOLVED IN FAKE
ENCOUNTER BE BROUGHT BEFORE THE LAW; AND (B)
ISSUE AN APPROPRIATE TO STRICTLY COMPLY WITH THE
16 GUIDELINES ISSUED BY THIS HON’BLE COURT IN THE
CASE OF PUCL & ANR. VS. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA &
ORS. REPORTED IN (2014) 10 SCC 635 IN REGARD TO THE
INVESTIGATION OVER FAKE ENCOUNTER KILLING; FOR
THE VIOLATION OF THE RIGHTS UNDER ARTICLE 14, 19 &
21 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIVA.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
INDEX OF AUTHORITIES
STATEMENT OF JURISDICTION
STATEMENT OF FACTS
STATEMENT OF ISSUES
SUMMARY OF ARGUMENTS
ARGUMENT ADVANCED
PRAYER
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
UN United Nation
V, V/S, VS Versus
§ Section
ADMN Administration
ORS Others
VOL Volume
ART. Article
P Paragraph
PUCL & ANR. People’s Union for Civil Liberties & Anr.
SUPP Supplement
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ANR Other parties involved in a case
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INDEX OF AUTHORITIES
No
Page no.
.
1. PUCL & ANR. VS State of Maharashtra & Ors. (2014) 10 SCC 635
Criminal Appeal No. 1255 of 1999
2. M/S Andhra Pradesh Officers Association VS A.P. Liberties Committee
Civil Appeal No. 5646 of 2019
3. Chaitanya Kal Bagh and Ors. VS State of U.P. and Ors. (1989) 2 SCC 314
4. R.S. Sodhi Advocate VS State of U.P. and Ors. (1994) Supp (1) SCC 143
5. Satyavir Singh Rathi VS State through CBI (2011) 6 SCC 1
6. Prakash Kadam and Ors. VS Ramprasad Vishwanath Gupta and Anr.
(2011) 6 SCC 189
7. B. G. Varghese vs Union of India and Ors. (2013) 11 SCC 525
(Criminal) No. 31/2007
(Criminal) No. 83/2007
8. Rohtash Kumar VS State of Haryana (2013) 14 SCC 290
9. Om Prakash and Ors. VS State of Jharkhand (2012) 12 SCC 72
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STATEMENT OF JURISDICTION
The Honourable Supreme Count of Indiva has the jurisdiction in this matter.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS
Shrishti Mitra was a young Advocate who had just passed her
college and started practicing. She was very ambitious about her work
and always worked for the poor and needy people free of cost.
She was always the last one to leave her workplace and often took
her personal vehicle to travel home from workplace. One such night, on
17-01-2023 around 9:30 P.M. she was returning from workplace on
her scooty, where she noticed four men desperately asking for help
beside the highway.
Out of generosity, she stopped her scooty and two men told her that
they are tourists and one of their friends is laying injured at a distance.
While she got down from her scooty, two of them accompanied her to a
distant secluded place.
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On her way, she realized that her phone was inside the scooty, so
she returned for taking the same and on return, she found that her
two-wheeler tyre was punctured.
Shrishti Mitra called her younger sister Nancy Mitra at 9.35 p.m. to
inform that her scooter had broken down and she was alone on the
road.
All of a sudden, the two men, who had asked for help accompanied
by two other men came towards her and started touching her in a
wrong way.
She got scared and slapped one of them, to which the men became
angry and then dragged the girl to a distant place and raped her one by
one.
In the fear of not getting caught, the four men put petroleum in her
body and burnt her alive till she was dead and ran away towards the
nearby village.
He informed the village sarpanch @Kartik Das, who alerted the local
police.
After confirming that the victim was a female, the local police
verified the recent women missing cases and then, with the help of the
handbag and the scarf, the family members were able to recognise her.
By looking at the CCTV footage, the Police saw some faces where
the recording timing showed around 10:00 P.M. based on which, they
started searching for the four men who had run towards the village and
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started the enquiry. On 23-01-2020, based on its investigation, the
Police arrested, Javed, Rajesh, Naveen and Keshav.
In the meantime, as soon as the news became viral, people all over
the country started protesting and the news became trending all over
Social-Media and people demanded Justice for Shrishti Mitra.
ENCOUNTER OF FOUR
Amidst the remand period, the entire Country protested with candle
light marches and various High-Profile Personalities also got involved in
the protests.
IC INTERVIEW
The Police claimed that they found no other ways and had to
shoot down the four accused otherwise the accused would have
fled.
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FAMILIES OF FOUR’S PROTEST
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The killing of the accused in the alleged encounter was
hailed by a section of people, the families of the deceased and
human rights groups alleged that the police took law into its
hands, terming this as extra-judicial killing.
In the police press conference that followed, questions as to
how two of the four accused managed to get hold of the pistols in
the presence of 10 armed police officers went unasked.
The families of the Four Accused also alleged that the police
officers have framed the murder scene as they had threatened
them when they went to the police station.
The families informed the reporters that the police officers
angrily made the statement to the families that the accused stand
no chance of being saved from death as the entire Nation was
against their act.
The Hon’ble High Court of Ankara after hearing all the arguments
of the case held “The Police had no other option but to shoot the four
accused failing to which they would have fled and which would have
triggered mass and widespread agitation throughout the Nation and the
Role of the Police would have been in question. Therefore, the Court finds
the Act of the Police as an Act of Bravery and sudden reflex to counter
the situation which arose in front of them.”
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Families of the four accused who were gunned down by the police in
an alleged encounter, have approached the Supreme Court, seeking
registration of murder case against the police officers involved.
All the petitions have been clubbed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court
of Republic of India and stands pending before the Hon’ble Supreme
Court of Republic of Indiva.
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STATEMENT OF ISSUES
ISSUE I
ISSUE II
ISSUE III
ISSUE IV
ISSUE V
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STATEMENT OF ISSUES
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ADVANCED ARGUMENTS
NOT
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knock the doors of the court”.3 It is contended that petitioner has
faced discrimination at workplace and his civil rights has been
injured.
1.2. Violation of Principle of Natural Justice.
1.2.1. It humbly submitted that, the right of Audi Alteram Partem is a
valuable right recognized under the constitution of Indiva, wherein it
is held that, the principle of the maxim which mandates that no one
should be condemned unheard, is a part of the rule of natural
justice.4 The Audi alteram partem facet of natural justice is also a
requirement of Art. 14, for natural justice is the antithesis of
arbitrariness5 and Art. 146 strikes at arbitrariness of State action in
any form,7 as it permeate the entire fabric of Rule of Law.8
1.2.2. The counsel humbly acknowledges the fact that the respondent
should give him adequate chance to defend himself. The general
principle of natural justice is unrecognised in the instant case, the
encounter of the accused without knowledge of the court is biased.
Decision to take life of the four accused should be taken depending
on the gravity of the pre planed decision on the part of the police
officers. In case of pre planed decision to take life from the four
accused, it will improper to right to life. The requirement of the right
to be heard also goes hand with the principles of natural justice.
1.2.3. The counsel further submits that, Art. 14 strikes at arbitrariness
because it negates equality9 and permeates the entire fabric of Rule
of Law. In the instant case the petitioner and accused family
members should be given fair opportunity and fair trial proceeding in
the session trial of the rape and murder case. Thus, the whimsical
3
R.S Gupta, Widening the role of locus standi
4
M.P. Electricity Board, Jabalpur v. Harsh Wood Products, (1996) 4 SCC 522: AIR 1996 SC
2258
5
D.T.C. v Mazdoor Union D.T.C., A.I.R. 1991 SC 101; Basudeo Tiwary v Sido Kanhu
University, (1998) 8 SCC 194: AIR 1998 SC 3261.;
6
Article 14 of the Constitution of Indiva – Equality Before Law
7
Ajay Hasia v. Khalid Mujib Sehravardi, AIR 1981 SC 487; Pradeep Jain v UOI, AIR 1984
SC 1420; Indravadan H. Shah v. State of Gujrat, AIR 1986 SC 1035; Ramana Dayaram
Shetty v. I.A.A.I., A.I.R. 1979 SC 1628); D.T.C. v. Mazdoor Union D.T.C., AIR 1991 SC 101.
8
Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab, AIR 1982 SC 1325
9
R. D. Shetty v Airport Authority, AIR 1979 SC 1628; Suresh Chandra Sharma v.
Chairman, AIR 2005 SC 2021
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decision of the authorities and the police officers of the state not
providing the fair opportunity to the parties @four accused of being
heard before sharing the information, which abridges the
fundamental right of a person to be heard shall be regarded as
arbitrary and in violation of Article 14 of the constitution.
1.2.4. The principle of no one shall be a judge in his own cause. In other
words, the person @police officials deciding the matter must not have
anything like personal/private interest in the case. The rule that no
shall be a judge in his own cause is not followed strictly. Similarly,
there is every possibility that the police officials from the beginning
time period that we need to kill the four accused before the court
trial, which encounter seems like that the four accused want to flew
from the custody.
10
Indian Bar Review, Vol. XIX, 1992, P. 100
11
Olga Tellis v. Bombay Municipal Corporation, AIR 1986 SC 180; Shantistar Builders v.
Narayan Khimalal Totame, AIR 1986 SC 180.
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to escape. In the moment the police shoot down all of the four
accused.
But without proper permission, police shoot the four accused and
take life from their body. Hance, the shoot down and take life seems
like encounter of the accused is unconstitutional.
1.3.2. The constitutional mandate to the state to protect the citizen’s right
to live with human dignity echoed by the apex court to this country 12
is unconstitutional promise that the polity owes to citizen. The pledge
in the Preamble of the constitution is to secure the “Fraternity
assuring the dignity of the individual” which includes dignity of the
accused in the police custody.
In this case, the police without proper permission in the sense of the
four accused want to escape from their custody, the police officials
shoot them as like a encounter of the accused.
The supreme court held that,
“Any act or which damages or injures or interferes with the use of any
limb or faculty of person either permanently or temporary would be
within the inhibition of Article 21”13
1.3.3. It is submitted that, right to live is an integral part of the right to life
and guaranteed under Art. 2114 of the constitution.15 The right to live
to be implicit in the right to life and liberty guaranteed to the citizens
of Indiva by Art. 21.16 “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and
security of person”.17 Right to life is also a fundamental human right
recognized in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, the
International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, 1976 and in
many other international and regional treaties.
In the case, the respondent police officials are taking life from the
accused without knowing they are guilty or not, by the investigation in
12
Maneka Gandhi v. Union of India AIR 1978 SC 597
13
Francis Coralie Mullin v. Administrator, union territory of Delhi 1981 Cri. LJ 306
14
Article 21 of the Constitution of Indiva – Protection of life and Personal Liberty
15
People’s Union for Civil Liberties v. Union of India, AIR 1997 SC 568; R. Rajagopal v. State
of T.N., (1994) 6 SCC 632.
16
R. Rajagopal v. State of T.N., (1994) 6 SCC 632
17
Art. 3, UN Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
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charge interview, we come at the point that the four accused want to
escape from the police van.
1.3.4. It is hereby submitted before the Hon’ble court that the action of the
respondent threatens or violates fundamental right, the question of the
enforcement of that arises and a petition under Art. 32 will lie. Article 32
can be invoked only for the enforcement of Fundamental Rights. Article
21 include protection of life and personal liberty of the persons,
accused, men and women and opportunities and facilities for children
to develop in a healthy manner and in conditions of freedom and
dignity, educational facilities, just and humane conditions of work and
maternity relief.
By the taking life of the accused the family members of the accused,
who are dependable over the person with the view of escaping from the
police van and custody the police officials shoot them. In this portion
there arise what next with the family members and children and
elder ones, who are dependable on the person?
18
MC Mehta v. Union of India, AIR 1987 SC 1086
19
Nilabati Behera v. State of Orissa, AIR 1993 SC 1960; Kharak Singh v. State of Uttar
Pradesh, AIR 1963 SC 1295.
20
Chiranjit Lal Chowdhury v. U.O.I. AIR 1951 SC 41
21
Kharak Singh v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1963 SC 129
22
Romesh Thappar v. The State of Madras, AIR 1950 SC 124.
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the right, intended to be fundamental must be kept fundamentally. 23
This petition is within the jurisdiction of Hon’ble Supreme court.
23
Ram Singh v. State of Delhi 1951 AIR 270, 1951 SCR 45109
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5.2. Question arises in instant case – the police take life
5.3. What if police officials found guilty?
PRAYER
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