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Raj Kumar Makkad (Adv P & H High Court Chandigarh)     29 March 2010

DELHI POLICE MUST EXPLAIN

THE Delhi High Court's decision to award a compensation of Rs 5.62 lakh to Prempal, who was falsely implicated in as many as 18 cases by the Delhi police, would be shocking, were it not for the depressing fact that police high- handedness and criminality is anything but rare in this country.

 

The trifling sum, as well as the apology that the Delhi police commissioner Y. S. Dadwal must offer him, can hardly compensate for his ordeal which included harassment, torture and seven years in jail. That he was acquitted in 13 cases and convicted in five cases tells its own bitter- sweet story about the quality of our lower judiciary.

 

The High Court would do the public a great favour if it were to make the follow up of this case a special mission and ensure that the police officers responsible for so monstrously perverting justice are punished. The Delhi police may owe Mr Prempal some money and an apology, but it also owes an explanation for its conduct to the people of this city.

 

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs which supervises the Delhi police, too, needs to look into the issue and take urgent measures to reverse the rot.

 



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Daksh (Student)     29 March 2010

Dear Mr.Raj Kumar Makkad, Writing the post after reading Newspaper time and again could be a good idea for name sake but the reality otherwise is harsh - as in Delhi High Court itself the exercise is going on to furnish the Family and Friend of the Judges whose relatives and friends are practising in the court where they are seated. The moot point is character as an individual, citizen of the nation etc. which we are lacking (the point you seem to overlap yet again). Don't you know about the existence of the Transport Mafia, The Hafta syndrome the vote bank politics etc. The Pollution Cases then the cealing drive now everything is settled down until we will hear the Commonwealth Scam in the building. The irony is we can't do anything but expect everyone else to follow our dictum. Best Regards Daksh

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