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2022 Supreme(Pat) 637

ASHWANI KUMAR SINGH, SHAILENDRA SINGH
Om Prakash Kumar – Appellant
Versus
State of Bihar – Respondent


Advocates:
For the Petitioner: M/s Om Prakash Kumar (in Person), P.K. Shahi, Surya Nilambari,
For the State : M/s Lalit Kishore, Suraj Deo Yadav.
For the Patna High Court : Mr. Satyabir Bharti.

Ashwani Kumar Singh, J.—The present writ petition in the nature of Public Interest Litigation (for short ‘PIL’) has been filed by the petitioner for commanding the respondents to ensure that day-to-day investigation of any criminal case carried out by the officers of Bihar Police and the entries thereof transcripted in the police case diary should be maintained in a digital form so as to provide better aid in dispensation as well as in the administration of justice.

2. The petitioner, a practicing advocate of this Court, has appeared in person. He submitted that in the present contemporary era of digitization/computerization, the Bihar Police is using the outdated system of maintaining the records in manual form which adversely affects the administration of criminal justice. He contended that the case diary is an important piece of document wherein day to day proceedings of investigation is maintained by the Investigating Officer investigating a criminal case. Since it is maintained by the officers of Bihar Police in a hand written form, it has been noticed many a times that case diary maintained by the Investigating Officer is not legible and thereby it causes difficulty in the adm

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