New Delhi: The Delhi Police Commissioner issued an order on Thursday directing senior officers at district level and the police station against using ‘flowery’ and ‘bombastic’ language while filing FIRs, diaries or chargesheets.
The order follows a 2019 directive by the Delhi High Court asking the police to use simple and plain language.
The police chief, Sanjay Arora in a circular asked police officials not to use complex Urdu or Persian words that are incomprehensible.
As per the order the words like ‘Aham’, ‘Mujrim’ are banned while ‘Vishesh’ meaning ‘special’ is retained among others.
The senior official has given a list of 383 complex words to be replaced with their simpler equivalents in Hindi and English.
The circular warned senior officials of disciplinary action in the event of non-compliance.
In 2019, the Delhi High Court observed that certain words used by police in FIRs and chargesheet were too difficult to comprehend even for lawyers and judges.
The court at the time said that the languages used by officials were too flowery requiring dictionary for finding out meaning.
Directing the officials, the court said that the language used by the police should not be for those with a doctorate degree in Urdu or Persian.