HC asks DGP to come up with SOPs over police protection to enforce court decrees
The Telangana High Court has directed the Director General of Police to develop a Standard Operating Procedure for enforcing court-ordered police protection. This move aims to reduce the burden on the judiciary caused by citizens repeatedly seeking court intervention to implement civil decrees.
Why it matters
It addresses systemic administrative inefficiencies that force citizens to seek judicial relief for basic enforcement of civil rights.
The Telangana High Court asked the Director General of Police to consider issuance of Standard Operating Procedure to the district police officials over providing protection to decree holders for enforcement of orders passed by executing courts.
A bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G.M. Mohiuddin, hearing an appeal filed against a single judge order to provide police protection to a citizen who secured decree over a property, said such SOPs might prevent unnecessary litigations in the High Court. The bench noted that the HC had been witnessing a recurrent situation of decree holders being compelled to approach the HC for implementation of the orders passed by the executing court.
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