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Everyone Against Khaki

Now's the time to set up checks against abuse of police powers

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  • The setting up a high-powered inquiry commission of at least three retired judges of the Supreme Court to examine all investigations in all bomb blast and terrorist attack cases, including cases of encounters, in the last few years.
  • The setting up of independent police complaints authorities at the district and state levels as directed by the Supreme Court in the police reforms judgement. This is necessary for fixing responsibility of police persons guilty of framing innocent people on trumped-up charges, illegal detentions and torture.
  • Strengthening of the human rights commissions at the national and state levels by giving them adequate powers, providing them with their own dedicated police machinery and by broadbasing and making transparent the selection of their members. This will go a long way in being a deterrent against human rights abuse by the government of the day and the state security and police apparatus under its control.
  • Since the reservations the BJP and the Congress are voicing about the state apparatus at this point are ironically similar though approached from different perspectives, sincerity demands that they agree to a set of similar suggestions, such as those made above, in the interest of the democratic system they swear by. Whoever balks will sound phony.
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