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| SC directs police reforms in country | | | New Delhi, Sep 22 The Supreme Court today directed a slew of measures for reform of the police force in country that includes a minimum tenure for DGPs, IGPs and senior police officials.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Y K Sabharwal directed the National Human Rights Commission and the government to consider suggestions given in a PIL filed by former DGP Prakash Singh, to transfer cases of terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering to the CBI within the next four months.
A police complaint authority should be established in which complaints against police officials could be filed, the Bench observed.
Besides a police establishment board should be estalished to fix the minimum tenure and selection procedures for police officials, it added.
The judgement came on a PIL filed by the former DGP seeking police reforms. |
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