NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today agreed examine a plea of the Jammu and Kashmir Government that the police does not require prior sanction before lodging an FIR against army personnel, as was done in the January 27 Shopian firing case involving a senior army officer.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, however, did not agree to the J&K Government’s contention that either all states, or states like Assam and Mizoram where Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) is in force, be made parties, since the police’s powers to register FIRs against army personnel involved in cognisable offences, would be directly affected. (AGENCIES)
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