Refusal to entertain a murder case

We understand that in the meantime the administration has suspended three personnel of the local police station. Our concern, however, is that incidents of brutality took place in the past and matters were hushed up or some immediate pacifying actions were taken by the administration like suspension of a police officer or his transfer from one place to another.

To us this is clearly a case of brutal murder and thus legal proceedings should be drawn against those involved. But inexplicably, the police refused to register the incident as a murder case.

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Cases like these are a challenge to our justice system and hence cannot be treated merely as an administrative issue. Only recently no less a person than the IGP himself in an interview said that there is no provision for 'closing' a police personnel "in the police code". Suspension of the concerned policemen is one thing but legal proceedings against murders are quite another. The first and foremost duty of the law enforcers or the legal apparatus is to uphold the supremacy of law. Often the results of departmental actions against an offender end up in cold storage and never made public and thus the aggrieved are denied justice.

In recent times we have come across news in the media that thousands are being recruited to strengthen our police force, but surely, if this is kind of moral fibre on which police operates then one can well imagine as to what good will that do.