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| Insurance cover must for commoners, missing for J&K police vehicles | | Law enforcing agency goes lawless! | | Sumit Sharma
Jammu, Oct 28: Jammu and Kashmir police is seemingly above law which is why it's more than 6000 vehicles are running without mandatory insurance cover.
Who dares ask for insurance cover, adage seems to have taken over the entire department. The matter came to limelight when Finance Department during audit found 52 vehicles of the CID wing of the police department are not insured. Later, it was revealed that no police vehicle is insured in police department.
If the sources within police department are to be believed, a fleet of about 6000 vehicles are running with police department ranking from top cops of Police to Station House Officers, but amazingly all are running with violation of the traffic and transport department norms. Worthwhile to mention here that most of the vehicles of the police are luxurious and expensive one including Scorpio, Bolero, Innova etc having registered VIP numbers.
Asked about the number of challans of the police vehicle by traffic police for violating norms the senior police officers in traffic police, preferred mum. In the meantime, there are some police officers in police department who are in favour of insurance of the vehicles admitting nobody is above law.
However, the AIG Police Transport in Police Headquarters Aftab Kakroo has valid reason to say that the police department has its own workshops ,besides, he further said, there is also a security risk as insured vehicle has to dispatch to company's workshops for repair purpose which ultimately is vulnerable to security threat, adding, if a person is died with the accident by police vehicle,then PHQ pays the compensation amount as fixed by the tribunal court.
Another senior officer of police, based on anonymity, in defensive mood said that if all vehicles of police are insured, then state government will bear additional burden of the financial crunch as the amount goes to crores of rupees.
Further, the compensation to accident victims ( hit by police vehicles) also goes missing in the Schedule-I to Notification SRO 394 dated 23.04.2013 by Home Department which read as Loss of life (normal) (compensation granted to the tune of Rs 1.00 lakh), death by torture in police custody ( compensation granted Rs 3.00 lakh), Loss of any limb or part of body resulting in 80% of the above handicap ( compensation Rs 2 lakh) ,loss of any limb or part of body resulting in 40 % and below 80% handicap ( compensation granted Rs 1.5 lakh), Rape of Minor or rape in Police custody ( compensation Rs 3.00 lakh), Rape (compensation 2 lakh) /-, Acid Victims ,complete burn ( Rs 3, lakh), partial burn (Rs 2 lakh) -,injury causmg severe mental agony to women and child victims in case like Human Trafficking ( compensation Rs 1lakh)
Leaving aside the bucks and seriousness by some of the police officers, the matter forces common man to think that if police vehicles are registered with the registration authorities with proper documentation, then on which ground they are exempted from insurance. Are Police above law? |
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