All FIRs of CB-CID, CCB uploaded online, police inform HC

All FIRs of CB-CID, CCB uploaded online, police inform HC

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:18.07.2021 

Nudged by the Madras high court, the Chennai city police have uploaded all FIRs registered by the central crime branch (CCB) and the CB-CID on the crime and criminal tracking network system (CCTNS).

Filing a status report, the Chennai city commissioner of police informed the court that it had now complied with the order passed by the Supreme Court in 2016 making it mandatory to upload FIRs to the tracking system.

Recording the submission, the first bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy said, “in the light of such a report, it appears that the local authorities are alive to their obligation in terms of the order of the Supreme Court.”

The issue pertains to a PIL moved by advocate M Balaji alleging that the 2016 order of the apex court had not yet been complied by the state government.

On April 2, the court directed the Tamil Nadu government to indicate measures taken to upload all the FIRs registered in the state online in the website of the police or any other official website as directed by the Supreme Court in 2016.

“If appropriate measures have not been taken already, such measures should be devised expeditiously…” the court had said.

The petitioner alleged that FIRs once registered have to be uploaded to the website within 24 hours, however, the department fails to do so.

Replying to an RTI application seeking details of such FIRs, the police said FIRs had not been uploaded due to sensitivity of cases. Facilities to view the FIR of CCB in the official website are not programmed right from the beginning, the petitioner said.

The commissioner of police informed the court that the department had complied with the order passed by the SC in 2016