Tendency To Approach Police For Civil Wrongs Undermines Rule of Law: Allahabad High Court Slams 'Cosmetic' FIRs

Sparsh Upadhyay

5 April 2026 2:33 PM IST

  • Tendency To Approach Police For Civil Wrongs Undermines Rule of Law: Allahabad High Court Slams Cosmetic FIRs

    The Allahabad High Court recently termed it as 'disturbing' that the public approaches the police and the Collectors for the redressal of civil wrongs, as this tendency undermines the fabric of the rule of law and promotes extra-legal agencies for remedies where these agencies have no jurisdiction.A bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Tarun Saxena made the observations while hearing a...

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