By Dheeraj Fartode Shocking allegations of misconduct have emerged against a police officer in Nagpur City Police. The officer is accused of abusive and degrading behaviour, particularly targeting accused in Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Sources claim that the senior officer arrives at the police station and calls the accused into a separate room, where the officer not only hurls abuse at the accused but also spits at their face. Later, the officer allegedly kicks the accused in the private parts. In some incidents, when a couple approached a police station in Nagpur to file a complaint following a domestic dispute, the police sent a proposal for preventive action to the officer. However, instead of handling the matter professionally, the officer allegedly made the man sit down, then kicked him in the private parts and leave him in pain and humiliation. The behaviour of the high ranked official have raised questions about the professionalism of law enforcemen...
NAGPUR Police have invited the ire of the Chief Secretary for their poor rate of investigation into sexual offences. Probe into more than 87.5 per cent sexual offences has not been completed within the stipulated 60-day period. The time-frame in sexual assault cases has been decided by Union Home Ministry by issuing The Criminal Law (Amendment) ordinance 2018. Chief Secretary of Maharashtra rapped the City Police for this lackluster attitude in a meeting held at Mumbai recently.
“As per the new amendment, filing of chargesheet within 60 days is necessary in such cases. However, many police units in the State have failed to do it as many officers are simply unaware of new amendment,” Inspector General of Police Pratap Dighaonkar, Prevention of Atrocities against women (PAW), informed ‘The Hitavada’.
The Centre had approved the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2018 last year which prescribed the time-limit for completion of investigation to put check on sexual crimes against women and children. The law was initially promulgated as an Ordinance on April 21, 2018 following an outcry over the rape and murder of a minor girl in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir and the rape of a woman in Unnao in Uttar Pradesh.
According to the letter of IGP Dighaonkar, a total of 193 First Investigation Reports (FIRs) in crime against women and children were filed between April 21, 2018 and July 23, 2019 by City Police. Of them, cops have managed to file final reports and chargesheets in 103 cases which is 53.37 per cent and the compliance rate, as per the letter, is 13.85 per cent.
Recently, a review meeting was held in Mumbai which was presided over by Chief Secretary Ajoy Mehta. He registered displeasure after finding Nagpur police’s dismal compliance rate, it was learnt.
Citing reasons behind the slow compliance rate, a senior police officer of Nagpur Police said, “In some cases, complainants try to implicate a person on false charges. Such cases need to be investigated properly to prevent injustice to common man.”. Another reason, he told, was the delay in receiving medical reports from Forensic Labs which is the most important evidence in rape cases.
In February this year, the Home Ministry had launched an analytic tool — Investigation Tracking System for Sexual Offences (ITSSO) to monitor and track time-bound investigation. It is part of the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and System (CCTNS) that connects over 15,000 police stations across the country. Officials at PAW are monitoring progress in sexual assault cases in the State.
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