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| HC rules on sponsored police post |
| The Bombay police, often accused of taking the law into their own hands, is now forced to clean up their act.
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| INDIA
, 25-October-2007
3:10:35 AM |
| The Bombay High Court has passed an order barring the police from constructing police chowkies with private funds.
Many chowkies in Mumbai are sponsored by local politicians, corporate bigwigs and real estate companies.
The state government has been directed to ensure that irregularities in the construction of these police chowkies are made legitimate and a compliance report is furnished by January 2008
On Wednesday, a division bench of Justice JN Patel and Justice Abdul Sayeed of the Bombay High Court ruled that advertisements or sponsorships like these were almost exploitative.
Justice JN Patel was addressing a PIL filed by IK Chugani, a Mumbai resident, who claimed that many police posts or chowkies, supposed to be built at government cost for police use, were actually sponsored by private parties.
Out of total 388 police chowkies in Mumbai, about 52 display the name of sponsors. Nine of them have advertisement boards and 269 have been built without the permission of the Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC).
But according to the court, the blame for the irregularities lies with the home department. ''This is a very sad state of affairs. It's the state's responsibility to provide everything to the police department.''
The Home Department will file a compliance report by January.
Although DGP Pasricha declined to talk on camera, he told NDTV that the police department would take full cognisance of the compliance report and act accordingly.
The Bombay police, often accused of taking the law into their own hands, is now forced to clean up their act.
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