Imphal, December 03 2008: WHILE OBSERVING that police and investigating officers have tendency to rush to the media and virtually, disclose all details of interrogation and investigation even before the same is concluded, Union ministry of home affairs, MHA has asked the director general of police of the states to take up appropriate action to avoid it stating that such premature disclosures can compromise the investigation and subsequent prosecution of the cases.

On receiving the communiqu� of the Union home secretary, Madhurkar Gupta on November 11 last, Manipur DGP has instructed all the officers below his ranks including superintendents of police all districts of the state to instructs the investigating officers to maintain secrecy and avoid disclosure of premature interrogation and investigation reports to the media, an official source said Sunday.

In the communiqu� of the Union home secretary, it has been observed that in different types of high profile criminal cases which attract a lot of public concern and attention, there is a tendency for the concern police and investigating officers to rush to the media and, virtually, disclosed all details of interrogation and investigation, even before the same is concluded.

"Such tendencies have come into sharp focus and notice in the context of the recent serial blasts in several cities in the country," Madhukar Gupta in his intimation to the states DGP said.

Such premature disclosures can compromise the investigation and subsequent prosecution of the cases, besides having implicit possibilities f contradictions being aired by different agencies and agencies of different states, the intimation observed and said.

"The latter is also extremely relevant keeping in view the inter-state and international linkage that many such cases have," the source quoted as saying in the intimation of the union home secretary.

As such disclosures tend to be projected in the media, and otherwise, as a pronouncement of guilt of the people who may have been apprehended, it has sharp criticism from all sections.

The matter need hardly emphasis the inappropriateness in the wider social context, except to say that even the courts of the higher judiciary have made serious critical observation in this regard, Gupta observed in his intimation.