e was corruption and political hegemony, said Justice S R Nayak, Chairperson, Karnataka State Human Rights Commission.He was speaking at the inauguration of the report on the publichearing on torture here on Tuesday. South India Cell forHuman Rights Education and Monitoring (SICHREM) had organised the public hearing on torture on August 12-13, 2009.
Justice Nayak said, “The police force in India is overworked and this leads to fatigue, irritation, demoralization which in turn leads to abuse and violence. But this does not justify their acts.” Mr Tom Porteus, Director of Human Rights Watch, London, briefed the audience on the report.
He said, “This report clearly enumerates as to the reasons for the dysfunction of police force in India. There is lack of equipment, shortage of manpower and no systematic and consistent report of crime in the police system. Police mistreat the criminal suspects without warrant.”
The report also spoke about what could be done to reform the police force, Mr Tom added. Insisting on accountability of police behaviour, improvement in conditions of their services and strength of the police force, and improvement in traini
ng and equipment were the possible solutions as given by the report, he said. There was a panel discussion that followed. The panelists included, Lokayukta, N Santhosh Hegde, S. T. Ramesh, ADGP, Recruitment and Training, Karnataka, Dr V S Elizabeth, National Law School of India University and Mr M N Reddy, IPS, IGP-COD, Karnataka.
The aim of the discussion was to enlighten people on the impurities and corruption that exist in the Indian society, especially the police force. The panelists were of the opinion that the state exercised certain rights on the people and that it was up to the state to guarantee basic rights to the citizens and not to deny their liberty in the eyes of the law.
- Darshana II MS Com
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