In the past few years, the crime rate in India has seen a sharp rise and this has cost the basic safety of the people. An alarming fact is that these crimes are not confined to one type or pattern but have snowballed into a series of crimes like corporate crimes, or physical robberies, crimes pertaining to personal relations and infidelity etc. Thus, many people consider it is high time they consulted and hired a detective from the top detective agencies. As mentioned earlier crime has now become multifaceted Thus, there are many people who hire a professional detective agency who conduct an employee background check in your company or a pre-matrimonial check on your partner
Is it legal to hire the top detective agencies for investigation?
A question arises time and again when the services of the top detective agencies are sought? How legal is it to hire a private investigator? And rightly so, because the actions of a private investigation warrant an in-depth search into the subject’s life; so there will be questions about its legality.
The answer is “yes”. It is perfectly legal for you to hire top detective agencies to solve cases on private and personal front because there is no legislation or law that prevents a private investigator from conducting investigations in the country. Many a times it has been observed that there are people who in the need of an urgency to have their cases looked into seek the services of the top detective agencies for cases like pre-matrimony or post-matrimony investigations. Besides, law bodies such as that of the police have either consumed too much time or have failed altogether in a timely, detailed investigation of crime. Thus, it is the private investigators that come to the rescue and get on with an investigation in a substantially less amount of time.
A glance at the halted Private Detective Agencies (Regulation) Bill, 2007
Like we mentioned earlier, there are no legislations or laws which bar the actions of private investigators in India. However, The Private Detective Agencies (Regulation) Bill, 2007 was proposed back in the day which remains halted to date. If ever the law comes into being and is passed, it shall put regulations on licenses to work as a private detective and enforce hefty fines in case of an offence is committed by a the private detectives or top detective agencies in the course of the investigation.
All said and done, there are still a few activities that an investigator of a professional detective agency is not allowed to perform without a proper warrant or legal permission.
Let’s have a look at what these activities are!
Illegal practices that are to be avoided by the top detective agencies
- Impersonating a Police Officer
At any point in time during the investigation done by a detective of the top detective agencies is found to be impersonating as a police officer or any other legal authority executive, it shall be considered a crime under the section170 of the Indian Penal Code. The crime is punished with a 2 years in rigorous imprisonment.
- Phone tapping a person
It may be a rude shock to many but unlike the cinemas and crime dramas on TV where it is shown that phone tapping could be done at will, it is a serious crime to do so. If found that a professional detective agency is indulging in such practices without a search warrant they can find themselves in legal problems and can even face imprisonment.
- Trespassing on Private Property
It is a serious offence to trespass on someone’s private property and no top detective agencies have the right to do so. They cannot enter anyone’s private property either on the grounds or in the pretext of “finding evidence” without the owner’s permission to gather evidence.
Conclusion
While hiring top detective agencies are the need of the hour for some individuals and organizations, superseding the law or even violating them can have serious implications. At Hawkeye Intelligence Consultants, our detectives ensure that they conduct their investigations whilst staying in the ambit of the law and that no acts of theirs can be scrutinized under the law. In doing so, we also ensure that the investigation brings about a breakthrough for a case and gets solved in due course of time.