Home Minister is not reforming Police.
Indian Home Minister P.Chidambaram is least interested in “Police Reforms”. Even as Indian police abuses, threatens, extorts money, kills innocent people in custody, drives many husbands with marital problems to suicide every year, P.Chidambaram only showing his incompetency in running the Home Ministry. What he does not understand is that, lives of millions of people are at stake and he has no right to deny “right to life and right to diginity” of citizens by sleeping over “Police Reforms”.
In recent times, the Law Minister Veerappa Moily has taken some courageous steps towards “Legal Reforms” and he has also gone on record making some bold promises about future Judiciary in India. Can not Home Minister P.Chidamnaram take a lesson or two from Veerappa Moily. The other option for Mr.Chidambaram is to quit.
If Chidambaram does not start “Police Reforms” in next 50 days, he has to get ready to face nation wide agitation.
Indian police encourages abuses: Human Rights Watch
PTI 4 August 2009, 09:42pm IST
LONDON: India is modernizing fast but its police still indulges in widespread human rights violations, a prominent human rights group claimed on Tuesday as it pressed the government to overhaul a “failing system”.
The US-based group Human Rights Watch said “India is modernising rapidly, but the police continue to use their old methods: abuse and threats.” “India’s policing system facilitates and even encourages abuses,” the 118-page report said.
It said there has been little change in attitudes, training or equipment since the police was formed in colonial times with the aim to control the population. The report said the government must take major steps to overhaul a failing system.
Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch said, “it’s time for the government to stop talking about reform and fix the system.”
The authorities require a major overhaul – otherwise the beatings, torture and illegal killings will continue to stain India’s democracy, he said.
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Stories of Suicides of men due to police torture or False Cases of 498a in India.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090827/jsp/calcutta/story_11414324.jsp
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/False-dowry-case-Man-kills-self/270124/
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P.Chidambaram is now behaving like a slave of lawyers after the lawyers started the stir fearing loss of bail business if innocents are no longer arrested. Being a home minister he wants to go with what lawyers say in stead of using his own brain or commonsense.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Govt-to-bring-ordinance-on-arrest-law/H1-Article1-468595.aspx#
Home minister P. Chidambaram had asked the law commission to sit with lawyers including the Bar Council of India and government officials to put CrPC reforms back on track.
The third report of the National Police Commission suggested that nearly 60 per cent of arrests were unnecessary and unjustified.
It estimated that the abuse of the arrest law accounted for over 43 per cent of expenditure on jails. The third report of the National Police Commission termed every second arrest made by the police unnecessary and unjustified.
Nearly 67 lakh people were arrested in 2007 for violating the Indian Penal Code as well as state and special laws. Sixty-five per cent of 3.2 lakh prisoners in India’s jails are undertrials.