Courts must not interfere in police investigations, Supreme Court rules

…were granted default bail, a bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Shree Chandrashekhar said the HC committed an error in not granting more time to the anti-terrorism squad of Mumbai police to complete the probe." Investigation of a crime is the exclusive domain of the police. It is not the jurisdiction of the court to decide when the investigation in a case should stop. It must be left to the discretion of the investigating agency to decide the course of investigation and to proceed in its own manner. The court cannot curtail the statutory powers vested in the police except in an exceptional case on facts or where there is a statutory bar to carry out investigation by the police ," the bench said. It added that courts cannot interfere with the statutory right of the police to investigate the circumstances of a cognisable crime and it was the bounden duty of the executive, through the police…