Allahabad HC
PRAYAGRAJ: The Allahabad high court has held that arrest should be the last option for police and should be restricted to those exceptional cases where arresting the accused is imperative or his custodial interrogation is required. “Irrational and indiscriminate arrests are a gross violation of human rights,” the court added.
While granting anticipatory bail to a police constable, Jugendra Singh, Justice Siddhartha quoted the case of Joginder Kumar vs State of Uttar Pradesh (AIR 1994 SC 1349), where the Supreme Court has referred to the third report of National Police Commission (NCP), in which it is mentioned that arrests by the police in India is one of the chief source of corruption in the police. The report suggested that, by and large, nearly 60% of the arrests were either unnecessary or unjustified and that such unjustified police action accounted for 43.2% of expenditure of the jails.