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Supreme
Court wants states to act on police reforms
Monday December 06, 2010 10:40:00 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Supreme
Court Monday said that it would see to it that its judgment on
police reforms was implemented in its entirety and it was not left
in limbo. "We don't want our judgment to lie in the courtroom,"
the court said.
There should be uniformity in the implementation of its direction
on police reforms, said the apex court special bench of Chief
Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice Aftab Alam and Justice K.S.
Radhakrishnan.
The court was reviewing the implementation of police reforms by
West Bengal, Maharashtra, Karnakata and Uttar Pradesh.
"We only want the time table for the separation of investigation
from law and order duties of the police," the court said, giving
the states four weeks' time to indicate the approximate time they
would require to implement the reforms in a phased manner.
A few years back, the apex court in a judgment issued directions
for reforms and insulating the working of police in states from
political influence.
The court said that the presence of the chief secretaries of
Karnataka, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh during the
hearing was a message to other states that if police reforms were
not implemented, the court would take a serious view of the
default.
Since most of the states were facing problem in routing the
appointment of their respective police chiefs and top police
officials through the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) in
the absence of the rules and regulations providing for it, the
court asked Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium to take
instructions from the government.
The court earlier said that states would get the appointment of
their top police officials channelised through the UPSC. However,
the UPSC returned such requests, saying that it was not its
mandate to preside over the appointments of top police officials
in states.
The court took note of attempts by various state government to
enact laws aimed at defeating the judgment.
The court observed that once it succeeded in institutionaliding
its recommendations, it would proceed to incorporating broader
reforms.
The next hearing concerning the implementation of apex court
directions on police reforms will be held Jan 10, 2011.
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