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more-inThe Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday held that the police cannot file a final report or closure report in man-missing cases as ‘undetected’. Justice N.
Anand Venkatesh observed that ‘undetectable’ was only a stage in the investigation and not a final report. The police are directed not to file a closure report as ‘undetected’. Even if such reports are filed before the court, they do not terminate the investigation, the court said. The Virudhunagar police, which investigated the case, filed a final report in 2014 before the judicial magistrate saying the case was closed as ‘undetected’ since they had failed to trace him..