NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Centre and all states and Union Territories on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking directions to address the growing menace of false complaints, fabricated charges, and false evidence in the criminal justice system.
A bench of Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi passed the order while hearing a petition filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay.
As per the computerised case status, the matter is tentatively likely to be listed for further hearing on May 11.
The petition claimed that the current legal framework prevents an aggrieved person or victim from initiating proceedings against false complaints and fabricated evidence without prior sanction of the court, thereby creating a structural barrier to accountability.
It contended that a "literal interpretation" of Sections 215 and 379 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023 has rendered several penal provisions ineffective, thereby allowing "criminals to flood police stations with false FIRs and overburden courts with false cases, false charges, false information, false certificates, false statements and false evidence".