PIL Filed in Delhi High Court: Seeks A Direction to Make Unregularized Activities of Private Detective Answerable for Their Operations
(Judicial Quest News Network)
A PIL has ben filed before the Delhi High Court seeking the regulation of activities of private detective and their activites.in India on the ground of being violative of the fundamental right to privacy (Radha Bisht v Union of India)
The petition high lights that the work of the private detectives, investigators, and their agencies remains outside the purview of any existing statutory framework.
The matter was listed before the Division Bench of Chief Justice D.N.Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh.
The petitioner one Radha Bishta said that the Private Detective Agencies (Regulation) Bill 2007 is pending before parliament since last 13 years and expired therefore, there is no law governing the activities of Private detectives and their agencies.
Due to such absence of law governing the activities of private detectives, people being victim of abuse, people violated of their right to privacy, people being cheated or offended otherwise, have no statutory law to invoke against the agencies and make them liable
It is such inability to make private desiccative agencies liable before any court of law or institution enable them to operate in any a manner which they feel to be suitable for themselves.
It further stated that a work of a private detective lacking accountability with respect to its Modus Operandi enables violation of fundamental rights of the Citizen of this nation enshrined under Article 21 of the Constitution of India. The petitioner like many others have become the victim of unregularized activities of a private detective appointed by her husband
The petition is filed through b Advocates Preeti Singh,Sunklan Porwal,Shubham Kaushik.
The petitiner claims to be the vixtim of domestic violance, having a strained relationship with her husband, who allegedly appointed a private detective for following th petitioner and sending goons to follow her.She submits that the unregularised activities of the private detective are violating her privacy defaming her in public life.
She furtehr submitted that those private detectives who were hired to spy on her, also took some pictures of her without her consent.
The petitioner approached the police to file a complaint against the husband and his private detectives but till date no action has been taken.
Earlier a legal notice was also sent to her husband but the later did not respond to it till date.
The petitioner claimed that the operations of detectives are in violation of fundamental right to citizens under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.
In am similar matter alst year, the Delhi High Court sought Centre;s rsponse on a plea seeking guidelines to regulate the work of private dtectives till the codified Act comes into existence.
The matter is slated to be heared on February 21, 2022.
