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| Will PDP seek active role for LOP? | | Bill for New Police Act | | Early Times Report
srinagar, Feb 21: Although the Home Department has sought suggestions on draft bill for the new Police Act, people are apprehensive about inclusion of their comments in the bill. They have sought a broad based interaction with civil society actors.
The apprehensions are not totally unfounded. A brief analysis of the new police bill clearly exposes the Government's ill intentions. The draft has sidelined the leader of opposition who plays an important role in appointment/selection of members of State Information Commission and State Vigilance Commission. The leader of opposition must have a role to play in the formation of State Security Commission as well.
The Draft bill fails to give a two year fixed tenure to the DGP and lays down no selection process for his appointment. The Police Complaints Authority which is another important part of the police bill requires a complainant to approach the Authority only after filing an affidavit. No complaint will be entertained by the Police Complaints Authority if it is made six months after the incident. Such provisions make this bill very complex and anti people. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that these infirmities are deliberate and put in the way to create an ineffective body that is destined to fail even before its launch.
It is now the role of opposition to take up the issue with the Government for drafting the new police bill in a partisan way. They have to ensure that this bill includes all the important provisions and the opposition PDP, BJP and Panthers Party must too support for holding the public consultation on this issue and then only the bill could be sent to legislature.
The Supreme Court had directed the State Governments in 2006 to form Police Complaints Authority. The State Government had been delaying it on one pretext or the other. |
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