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It adds that ‘hue and cry’ notices shall not be broadcast indiscriminately, but shall be sent with the utmost despatch to those places, “whether within or outside the jurisdiction of issue,” where special action is required. An illustration depicting “hue and cry” scenario where people help police in nabbing a suspect. “The whole hundred… shall be answerable” for the theft or robbery committed, it said, adding “those who raised a hue and cry falsely are themselves guilty of a crime”.įor instance, Rule 23.18 of Punjab Police Rules, Volume III, says: “Whenever it is required to have a search made for an absconding suspect, or to issue warnings for precautions to be taken against a particular type of offence or particular individuals, the officer in charge of the police station or the investigating officer shall issue a hue and cry notice”. It said that all able-bodied men, upon hearing the shouts, were obliged to assist in the pursuit of the criminal. England’s King Edward-I who had signed the Statue of Winchester 1285 introducing “hue and cry” as a law. The Statute said that “anyone, either a constable or a private citizen, who witnessed a crime shall make hue and cry, and that the hue and cry must be kept up against the fleeing criminal from town to town and from county to county, until the felon is apprehended and delivered to the sheriff”. The ‘hue and cry’ rule simply meant that if a suspect or a criminal was running down the street in front of some bystanders, then each of them had to yell to help the police identify and catch them. The Statute made it a law stating that “if citizens saw a crime, they not only had to report it, but take up a cry to alert the police.” However, in policing terms, the phrase traces its origin to 1285 when England’s King Edward I signed the “Statute of Winchester” to deal with security and peacekeeping on a local level by revamping the existing police system. The phrase ‘hue and cry’ in contemporary terms is often associated with a strong protest or public anger or disapproval on any issue.

The ‘hue and cry’ notice on Amritpal Singh issued by Punjab Police.
