Misuse of police force: Warring calls for reforms

Taking a stringent stand against the misuse of police and officials’ willingness to oblige their political bosses to victimise innocent people by registering false cases against them, Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring today said that once the Congress formed the government it would set up a judicial commission to probe such cases.

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Addressing a ‘Save the Constitution’ meeting organised by Capt Sandeep Singh Sandhu in the Dakha Assembly segment, he alleged that there some officials in the state police were abusing the powers vested upon them by the Constitution and betraying their uniform.

Calling for tough and stringent measures to fix responsibility for false cases, he suggested that any official who was found to have registered a false case should not only be dismissed from service, but must also be made to spend the same period of time in jail as the innocent victim.

Referring to the recent killing of a suspect in police custody, he said there was no accountability and called for this practice to stop. He said, the state needed serious police reforms to prevent the misuse of power.

Referring to the government’s claims of registering 8,500 cases, he asked, “Does the drug menace end with the mere registrations of FIRs or the demolition of people’s houses?”