ADGP admits to failure in curbing arson

Tribune News Service

Rohtak, May 1

Muhammad Akil, Additional Director-General of Police (Law and Order), has admitted to a strategic failure in dealing with violence during the recent Jat agitation for reservation.

The ADGP, who was here in connection with the Jats’ ‘jail-bharo’ campaign today, also conceded that there were “black sheep” in the police force and maintained that action was being taken against them. More action would follow after the submission of the report by the Prakash Singh Committee, he added.

Addressing a news conference at the office of the Rohtak Range IGP here today, the ADGP maintained that the state authorities had not broken any promise made to members of the Jat community, as was being alleged.

“The government’s stance is pretty clear. No innocent will be touched but no guilty will be spared. We have registered 2,100 cases in connection with the recent quota stir, and several persons have been arrested. Only those persons against whom there is a clinching evidence of active involvement in arson/violence are being arrested,” he asserted.

The ADGP stated that if the community leaders were of the view that certain innocent persons had been arrested, they should bring the specific cases to the knowledge of the police authorities.

“We will get the evidence against those persons re-analysed at the highest level and if it is not found substantial, the said person(s) would be released from jail. Not only this, we will take appropriate action against the police officials who were behind the arrest(s) of such persons(s),” he affirmed.