Sting Operation Not a Legal Method of Law Enforcement - SC

Submitted by asandil on 4/25/2014

The Supreme Court has said that sting operations are not a legitimate strategy for law implementation, raising questions on drawing an individual to entangle him. A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam said the Apex Court had given approval to sting operation that was done in the public interest in the R K Anand case, yet it will be troublesome to comprehend the degree in the said case as a regard of such a technique as a satisfactory rule of law authorization in all cases.

“Being basically a beguiling operation, however intended to catch a criminal, a sting operation raises certain ethical and moral questions. The exploited person, who is overall pure, is attracted into carrying out a wrongdoing on the confirmation of supreme mystery and privacy of the circumstances raising the potential address with reference to how such an exploited person might be considered answerable for the wrongdoing which he might not have submitted yet for the allure.

“An alternate issue that emerges from such an operation is the certainty that the methods conveyed to secure the requisition of the wrongdoing itself includes objectionable elements,” it said.

It said dissimilar to the US and certain different nations where a sting operation is distinguished as a lawful strategy for law requirement, however in a constrained way, the same is not the position in India.

The bench further said inquiry are raised on what might be the position of such operations if directed by a private person who had stained his own hands while ensnaring what he acknowledges to be the primary wrongdoing and the fundamental wrongdoer.

On the whole, the authenticity of a sting operation depends upon so many things and circumstances. A few countries consider sting operation as an effective and unfailing tool to deliver justice, but in India, as the Apex Court has said situations are different.

Ref. https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2014/apr/24/Sting-Operation-Not-a-Legal-Method-of-Law-Enforcement-SC-604311.html

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