Prabjot Kaur v. State & ORS.

$~67 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(CRL) 2816/2018 & Crl. M.A. No. 32421/2018 PRABJOT KAUR ..... Petitioner Through:

Mr. S. S. Tripathy and Mr. G. S. Bagga, Advocates.

Versus

STATE & ORS.

..... Respondents Through:

Ms. Kamna Vohra, Additional Standing Counsel and Ms. Suman Saharam for Mr. R.

S. Kundu, ASC with Inspector Shivraj Singh, SHO, Safdarjung Enclave.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAJMI WAZIRI

O R D E R

% 19.09.2018 Crl. M.A. No.32421/2018 (for exemption) Allowed, subject to all just exceptions.

The application stands disposed-off.

W.P.(CRL) 2816/2018 Issue notice.

Ms. Vohra, the learned Additional Standing Counsel accepts notice on behalf of the State.

The petitioner seeks protection from respondents No. 4 to 8 as well as registration of an FIR apropos the complaints made to the police on various dates. With respect to the latter, the petitioner has an alternate equally efficacious remedy under section 156(3) Cr.P.C. and she can move an appropriate application before the Court concerned. As regards the security

to her, Ms. Kamna Vohra, the learned Additional Standing Counsel for the State, submits upon instructions from SHO concerned, who is present in the Court, that due protection shall be accorded to the petitioner in terms of the threat, as may be perceived, particularly, the petitioner's apprehension expressed in para 19 and 20 of the petition shall be looked into. She also submits the SHO shall interact with the petitioner in the course of the day and shall sensitize the aforesaid respondents to maintain peace. Additionally, the petitioner shall be provided with telephone numbers of three police officers from the jurisdiction of the concerned Police Station of which one shall be of a lady police officer. These numbers shall be kept operational at all times so that any exigency can be intimated on either of the numbers by the petitioner.

Ms. Vohra further states that any message received on the said numbers or on any other telephone number of the police either by way of a telephone call or SMS shall be immediately responded to. Additionally, the Beat Constable/Division Staff of the area shall regularly visit the residence of the petitioner on a daily basis and report the same in the Roznamcha. The safety and security of the petitioner shall be assessed by the SHO on a weekly basis with due endorsement of the same in the Roznamcha. The Beat Constable shall record entries in his Beat Book. The petition, alongwith pending application, stands disposed-off in the above terms.

A copy of this order be given dasti to the learned counsel for the parties.

NAJMI WAZIRI, J.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018 sb