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Verma panel spares no one - Delhi government, police or public
Thursday January 24, 2013 10:22:31 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The J.S.
Verma Committee tasked to look into possible amendments to the
criminal law for quicker trial and enhanced punishment for
rapists, Wednesday slammed Delhi's police, public and the
administration for not acting promptly to help the Dec 16
gang-rape victim.
Using strong words, the three-member committee that submitted its
report to Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Wednesday, said:
"practically every serious breach of the rule of law can be traced
to the failure of performance by the persons responsible in its
implementation."
"The undisputed facts in public knowledge relating to the Delhi
gang-rape unmistakably disclose the failure of many public
functionaries responsible for traffic regulations, maintenance of
law and order and, more importantly, their low skewed priority of
dealing with complaints of sexual assault," the 631-page report
said.
The panel also commented on the "disputes relating to jurisdiction
of the police over the area of crime" that leads to delay in
taking cognizance - an allegation made by the victim's male friend
who had said that police wasted crucial time in taking the
seriously injured woman to hospital while they fought over
jurisdiction.
In its recommendations, the panel came down heavily on the
administration, including police as well as citizens, for not
helping the grievously wounded young woman and her friend who were
thrown off the bus after the brutal gang-rape.
The panel also slammed the police practice of "approaching only a
government hospital and not the nearest available hospital" in a
medico-legal case. The 23-year-old physiotherapist trainee was
driven many kilometers away to government-run Safdarjung Hospital,
though there were many good private hospitals near where she was
found in a bloodied condition.
It also took an open dig at the "peculiarity" of the Delhi
government of not having the power over the police and said this
"ambiguity" needs to be removed to maintain law and order and
ensure accountability.
The "apathy of civil society" in not coming forward to help the
couple came in for sharp criticism from the committee.
It noted "the misbehaviour of police towards any Samaritan is
often the cause for such apathy" and added this must not deter
citizens from doing their duty.
Justice Verma also slammed Delhi Police for using batons on the
anti-rape agitators, saying it "has scarred the Indian democracy."
Delhi Police had attracted lot of criticism for using batons,
water cannons and tear gas smoke against protestors after some of
them turned violent and tried to enter crucial government
buildings, including Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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