At a time when the Delhi police have come under the NHRC
scanner in the recent Ramjas College violence, the Supreme Court on Wednesday
sounded resigned about how its orders to usher in police reforms have fell on
deaf ears over the past several years.
“Police reforms are going on and on.
Nobody listens to our orders,” Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar remarked,
declining a plea for an urgent hearing on a petition seeking reforms within the
policing infrastructure of the country.
The reforms include fixed tenure for
senior officers and sealing the police force from political influences.
In 2006, after hearings which
carried on for years, the Supreme Court in Prakash Singh versus Union of
India had laid down seven binding directives to trigger reforms in the
police force.
However, three years later, met with
defiance, the Supreme Court had remarked: “Not a single State government is
willing to cooperate. What can we do?”
The current petition filed by
advocate Ashwini Upadhyay has sought direction to the Centre, State governments
and the Law Commission to implement police reforms and the Model Police Act,
2006 to ensure an “effective and impartial police system.”
“That arbitrary and unaccountable
functioning of the police has led to complete alienation of many citizens from
the State. Complete politicisation of the police force has led to highly
partisan crime investigation. State governments have been habitually abusing
their powers to drop serious criminal charges against their supporters and
foist false cases against their opponents,” Mr. Upadhyay’s petition said.
Source: The Hindu
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