mumbai its not just the men in khaki who are guilty of registering false cases against people or not applying their mind while invoking the provisions of law citizens too file frivolous or false police cases usually to settle personal scores in the last 10 months alone police decided to act against 16 complainants for registering false cases however in one case they decided to be lenient as the complaint involved an 11yearold student who lied to his parents the kid who was studying in the primary section of a convent school approached the police along with his father alleging that an unknown boy from the secondary section had pushed the kid in the garden and he consequently fractured his hand but during investigations after speaking to teachers and other students police learnt the kid had lied to avoid the wrath of his parents after he fractured his hand while playing in a park in mumbai police filed 42 a and bsummary reports before courts in the last 10 months in some of these police could easily have avoided registering an offence as in the khar incident but a local policeman said complainants often insist on registering an fir and are accompanied by advocates to pressurise the police joint commissioner of police crime himanshu roy said we have to follow the supreme court and high court guidelines police have to register an fir immediately when cognizable offences are reported to them for investigation in another case in oshiwara police decided to file a bsummary report in a robbery and kidnapping involving two women the women wanted to exchange designer dresses they had bought from a lokhandwala shop but the salesman refused they then dumped the purchased clothes in the shop and took away other clothes they had selected from the shop the salesman followed them till the car pleading that he would lose his job if they took away the clothes without the owners permission but the women drove off with the salesman still in the car in a bid to take out the clothes when the shop owner learnt of the incident he immediately filed a case at oshiwara police station but after a few hours police learnt what had actually transpired and decided to a file bsummary report in another instance in oshiwara last year police requested the court for permission to prosecute a 61yearold woman for filing a false case to settle a person score she had filed an assault case against her daughters friend who wanted to marry the girl despite her refusal police arrested the man but learnt during investigation that the man was not in the area when the alleged assault took place police then filed a bprosecution report and there has been no further development in the casetimes view closure reports indicate corruption inefficiency the phenomenon of so many cases being closed indicates several ills the most important being the trend of tardy investigation or worse deliberate misapplication of the mind and the