I solved all cases but didn’t get my due: Delhi Police commissioner Neeraj Kumar: In an interview marked by rare candour, police commissioner Neeraj Kumar, who will retire at the end of this month after a distinguished career, opens up to Neeraj Chauhan on his achievements, anguish and the task left unfulfilled. Excerpts from the interaction: Q. You had a very short but eventful tenure. Are you satisfied with the impact you had on policing in Delhi, and how would you describe your contribution? Neeraj Kumar: I don’t want to say what impact I made on the police but my effort has been to professionalize it as much as I could. Everything I did was centred around this basic principle. For instance, I have finalized the chargesheet of the match-fixing case of 2000. It is one of the things that the press has been raising again and again — that these cases don’t end in chargesheets. I also intend to finalize the chargesheet of thes potfixing case. I take pride in the fact that I have virtually written and rewritten several chargesheets in important cases — not only the gang rape of last December but also the Gudiya and Kanda cases. I don’t think in any other case in which the charge is abetment of suicide, the accused has been inside jail — and hasn’t got bail — for over a year. Then there is the Deepak Bhardwaj case and the Nachiketa Kapur case. We didn’t have any instructions on how to conduct investigations abroad. So, I issued a standing order on how to do it, drawing on my experience in CBI. I introduced schemes like Aapka Update. It’s a very simple idea — a complainant never gets to know what is happening to his case. So, I devised this system in which every 15 months the investigating officer (IO) should inform the complainant about the status. Then I laid down that SHOs should be present in their area at night and can go home only once a week, which was resisted by them. A lot of them filed anonymous complaints. There have been many stories about the crime graph rising. See, the simplest thing to do is to reduce the number of registered crimes. All that you need to do is to shoo away the complainant on some ground or the other, deter them from coming to the police. This was happening in lots of complaints related to crimes against women like rapes. So, we gave instructions that when a woman comes to the police station, a separate women’s helpdesk will record the complaint and no issues of jurisdiction would be raised. Soon after taking over, I realized that Delhi is very vulnerable to crimes committed by Mewatis. So, a lot of research took place and it has shown results. We went after them doggedly and smashed a number of gangs. Click Link for Full Interview: lawintellectindia/i-solved-all-cases-but-didnt-get-my-due-delhi-police-commissioner-neeraj-kumar/
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 07:53:56 +0000
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