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special panels to probe ‘atrocities’ by police
- The unfair and savagely violent use of power by the police is called police atrocity.
- The citizens, now-a-days are not treated with dignity by the police officer as expected in a democratic nation.
- The information regarding the police atrocity is necessary as it explains about the basic disputes that arises from the policing in a democratic nation.
- The police atrocity is the misuse of power by the police authority. The police have immense power but they have started misusing it. The powers of police is mentioned in the Police Act, 1861.The main Or primary obligation of a police is to serve the people and protect them from the wrongdoers. It was once a powerful and respectful notion but it has lost its reputation through time.
- Police atrocity is defined as, “a civil rights violation happened when police use excessive force with regards to a civilian that is more than necessary”
- The term “police” has not yet been defined in the criminal procedure code (CrPC) and the Police Act, 1861. But it mentions only their rights and duties.
- Police can be defined as the department of government which has authority of public order and detection of crime and for the safety of the people. It is simply defined as any person or group of people developed by the state, whose obligation is to maintain law and order, prevention, detection, punishment and investigation of crime. The police represent the civil authority of government. The function of police is known as policing.
- Police are often entrusted with various licensing and regulatory activities.
- main form of police is the public police force who wear the uniform. They are the most important part of the society. When a person is in need or difficulty or danger, then he does not know what he should do or whom he should approach, the police come out to be the most perfect unit for that person to approach.
- The police have also got many rights and powers.
- The police authority is entitled to those rights and powers, to which a ordinary person don’t have access.
- For example, a police officer can ask any person to show his identity and other documents but a ordinary person can’t do this. They have the authority to break the traffic rules if they need to but if any ordinary person will do this then he will be entitled to pay the penalty.
- According to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Uttar Pradesh registered a total of 236 cases of police officers for the human rights violations between 2014 and 2016.
- Total 411 cases of police atrocities was registered in the country during this period, with 57.4 percent of these cases registered by Uttar Pradesh alone. The conviction rate of such cases of atrocities done by the police officers is dismal as only three of them has been convicted between 2014 and 2016.
- Chief Justice of India (CJI) N.V. Ramana said he was in favour of forming standing committees headed by the Chief Justices of the High Courts to investigate complaints received from the common man of “atrocities” committed by the bureaucracy, especially police officers, in the country.
- The CJI’s oral observation comes even as police officers are in the spotlight for committing serious crimes.
- Recently, the police officers in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh have been accused of causing the death of a businessman during a raid in a hotel.
- In Tamil Nadu, the CBI had charge-sheeted nine policemen for the custodial deaths of the father-son duo, P. Jayaraj and J. Benicks. There have been instances in which district administration officers were recorded on video physically manhandling citizens during the lockdown.
- The CJI said orally, “When a political party is in power, police officers side with a particular party. Then when a new party comes into power, the government initiates action against those officials”.
- The court stated that this new trend needed to be checked in its tracks.
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