KAILASH GAMBHIR
Radha – Appellant
Versus
State – Respondent
Kailash Gambhir, J.
1. By this petition filed under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the Petitioner has approached this Court to seek directions to direct the police to register an FIR and investigate the case expeditiously.
2. The present petition was filed by the Petitioner on 3.11.2008 and the same was taken up by this Court on 5.11.2008 in the presence of the State Prosecutor. The case in hand depicts the sordid, despotic and nepotic functioning of the Delhi Police who in a most brazen, blatant and contemptuous manner have flouted and defied not only the mandate of the law as envisaged under Section 154 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, but also various directions given by the Hon'ble Apex Court and the High Court pronouncing that once any information disclosing the commission of a cognizable offence is brought before the police officer of a police station, then the concerned police officer is bound to register an FIR.
3. Before I proceed to discuss the legal position and the approach of the concerned police officials including that of the rank of not less than the Additional Commissioner of Police and the Commissioner of Police, it would be apt to giv
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