Centre’s assurance cannot override statutory processes governing withdrawal of FIRs, experts say
Legal experts clarify that government assurances regarding amnesty for protesters cannot override statutory criminal processes like the registration and withdrawal of FIRs. The discussion follows a Supreme Court hearing where the court noted that police excesses and protest violence require independent inquiry.
Even as the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) contended that the Supreme Court’s interim order permitting the States to proceed with the investigation into the FIRs registered against student protesters was in “direct contradiction” to the Centre’s assurance that no punitive action would be taken against them, legal experts said the assurance could not override the statutory provisions governing the criminal process.
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