HR panel questions police ‘dual policy’

By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, March 5: Senior counsel K G Kannabhiran onWednesday submitted before a larger bench of the AP HighCourt that as per the law police cannot refuse to register acomplaint with related to culpable homicide.He argued that whenever a complaint of such nature wasreceived by the police it should be registered and tried in thecourt.
A five member larger bench headed by Justice G Raghuramheard the arguments on the third day. The bench is hearing on abatch of writ petitions of whether the names of police personnelwho participate in encounters should be revealed or not.Mr Kannabhiran said the government or police cannot withholdthe names of the criminals who are harboured by them.Mr Raghunath counsel for the Civil Liberties Committee allegedthat the police are adopting the dual policy for the registration ofencounter death cases. He said when it comes to the turn of thepolice, they register a case against the unidentified naxalites andif any person approach them to lodge a complaint against thepolice they simply refused the complaint saying that it did nothave specific names.