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- Personal Liberty Case – No arrest by Police
ફરિયાદની વાસ્તવિકતા અને સાતત્યતા વિશે થોડી તપાસ કર્યા પછી વાજબી સંતોષ થયા પછી અને વ્યક્તિની સંડોવણી અને ધરપકડ કરવાની જરૂરિયાત બંનેની વાજબી લાગે તો જ વ્યક્તિને પકડવી નહીતર તેની સ્વતંત્રતા નકારવી એ ગંભીર બાબત છે.”
This Court in Joginder Kumar Vs. State [1994 (4) SCC, 260] (to which one of us, namely, Anand, J. was a party) considered the dynamics of misuse of police power of arrest and opined :
“No arrest can be made because it is lawful for the police officer to do so. The existence of the power of arrest is one thing. The justification for the exercise of it is quite another…No. arrest should be made without a reasonable satisfaction reached after some investigation about the genuineness and bonfides of a complaint and a reasonable belief both as to the person’s complicity and even so as to the need to effect arrest. Denying person his liberty is a serious matter.”