In which of the following decisions, the Supreme Court of India has issued sixteen guidelines regarding…

PUCL v State of Maharashtra laid down sixteen requirements for independent investigation of police encounters causing death. Paragraph 32 extended these safeguards to grievous-injury cases as far as possible. These include recording information, registering an FIR, independent investigation, magisterial inquiry, preservation of evidence and informing the NHRC or State Commission. The Court directed observance of the safeguards as law under Article 141.

Current law: The BNSS generally replaced the CrPC from 1 July 2024, with savings for specified pending proceedings. Current statutory provisions include section 196 on magisterial death inquiries; the constitutional safeguards laid down in PUCL continue to govern encounter investigations.