Himachal Police Losing Credibility

By: Jul 22nd, 2017 12:20 am

Surender KumarSurender Kumar

(The writer is based at Karsog, Mandi)

Devbhoomi is slowly converting to criminal land, as heinous crimes like innocent Yug case, honest Hoshiar Singh and recent Gudia case are bringing bad name to entire Himachal. Illegal mining mafia, forest mafia and criminals are are at large busy in looting wealth, life and modesty of women. All such incidents are disturbing the peaceful and serene nature of the hill state. In such a scenario fingers raised at working of the state police are also obvious.Brutal Gudia rape and murder case was registered under Sections 302, 376 and Section- 4 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act at Kotkhai police station in Shimla district. The body of girl missing from July 4 was found on July 6. Initial police investigations yielded negligible result. Increase in anger among public was expected and obvious then and it happened also. Because of all round pressure, DGP Somesh Goyal on July 10 said that because of complexity and sensitivity of rape case, need of constituting an SIT for inquiry of case was felt.  The police to save itself from embarrassment detained three suspects for investigations on July 11.

The public through protest, peace marches and dharnas mounted pressure and demanded the case to be run in fast track court to provide justice to Gudia. The SIT achieved big success on July 13 when it arrested six accused in the case. These included two locals, two from Uttarakhand and two Nepalese. The police claimed to have solved the case but  public had some other opinion. They alleged that police has scripted this entire story under pressure for self glorification. However one good news that emerged between all negatives in this period was that all 1200 members of Shimla Bar Association instead of advocating the case decided to oppose it. The public angst reached to its maximum as huge crowd gathered at Kotkhai, Theog and other places demanding a CBI inquiry in the case. Such was the angst that public adopted violent posture and even broke police vehicles. Finally the state government had to hand over the case to the CBI. People complain that police are trying to save high profile people in this case as they are roaming free. Progress of the police in this case till now reflects that it will take more than one month to crack the case. Himachal is a religious and peaceful state. Such inhumane and brutal incidents are a blot on devbhoomi which can never be washed off. However it is expected from people that they protest in peaceful manner. The culprits are somewhere between us in same state. We should cooperate with the police and investigation agencies to track them and solve the mystery. Image of the state police has remained clean till now. They should provide full cooperation to the CBI in order to provide justice to an innocent soul and nab the real culprits.

विवाह प्रस्ताव की तलाश कर रहे हैं ? भारत मैट्रीमोनी में निःशुल्क रजिस्टर करें !


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