The Court issued an interim injunction against the police, restraining them from conducting further probe against the petitioner based on the said FIR. It said that the State must sensitise the police to get them to register crimes henceforth, under BNS only.
“Surprisingly, the Police appeared to be unaware of the IPC having gone from 01.07.2024 and the BNS in place…Since the crime is registered on 01.07.2024, it ought to have been registered for the corresponding offences under the BNS and not under the IPC. In that light, there shall be an interim order of stay of further investigation in Crime No.167/2024, qua the petitioners, till the next date of hearing and a direction also to the State to sensitize all the jurisdictional stations to henceforth register crimes only under BNS and not IPC,” the Court said.
Source: Barandbench
