The Bombay High Court has pulled up the police department for filing incomplete charge sheets in criminal cases.

Justice Sadhna Jadhav on Saturday observed that it results in miscarriage of justice as bail is often denied to accused who continue to languish in prison for this lapse.

Noting that important documents such as post-mortem reports are often found missing from the charge sheets, the court said that observations made on the issue in the past appeared to have been ignored.

The Judge Sadhna Jadhav said that this practice has been deprecated by the Court time and again.

It appears that the Commissioner of Police has not taken cognisance of observations made by this Court earlier.

The Court was hearing the bail plea of an accused who has been in jail for more than a year after arrest in 2013, though a charge sheet had been filed in the trial court in a case where his wife allegedly committed suicide by hanging on 12th September 2013.

On a complaint by her father, the husband was arrested and booked on abetment of suicide, dowry death and cruelty charges.

The Court noted that after investigation was over in the case, the charge sheet was filed. However, post-mortem notes did not form part of the document.