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The Tamil Nadu authorities is successful the process of formulating a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for speeding up prosecution successful intersexual crimes against women and children, Advocate General Vijay Narayan told the Madras High Court connected Monday (June 22, 2026).
Appearing earlier the archetypal Division Bench of Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan, the A-G said, the authorities had besides decided to springiness utmost value to the upgradation of infrastructure required for speedy probe and trial.
He said, astatine present, not each determination forensic subject laboratories successful the State were equipped with DNA investigating facilities but the contiguous authorities intends to summation the fig of specified facilities, successful bid to trim the hold successful concluding constabulary investigations.
Stating that the hold successful completing the probe and filing complaint sheets hap mostly owed to the hold successful obtaining forensic subject reports, helium said that the authorities had decided to springiness an impetus to upgrading each kinds of infrastructure required for speeding up the process.
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The submissions were made during the proceeding of a writ petition filed by a 26-year-old rape subsister complaining astir the hold successful commencing the proceedings successful her case. The A-G said that the petitioner had been raped by 2 policemen astatine Tiruvannamalai successful September 2025.
He informed the Division Bench that a azygous justice of the High Court had connected June 4, 2026, dismissed the petitions filed by the accused to discharge them from the case. Thereafter, the proceedings tribunal had framed charges against them connected June 17, 2026, and the proceedings is acceptable to statesman connected June 24, 2026.
The A-G besides impressed upon the request for the High Court to sensitise judicial officers regarding the behaviour of proceedings successful specified cases connected a day-to-day ground truthful that it could beryllium completed wrong 2 months arsenic mandated nether Section 346(1) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).
After proceeding him, the Division Bench directed the State authorities and the Registrar General of the High Court to record a broad study wrong 2 weeks listing retired each facts and figures regarding pending intersexual offence cases against women and children and the infrastructural requirements.
