Our Indian
Penal Code consists of Large Number of Cognizable Offences where a Police
Official can arrest a person without any warrant.
Even in bail
able offenses, the Police can put handcuffs in a person’s wrist and produce in
a court by pulling with a thick and big rope.
Section 66 A of IT Act is one more addition to
draconian laws enacted by our democratic and welfare governments in our welfare
state. Even the British in colonial rule did not enact such a large number of
draconian laws.
One
SHO reportedly has powers to lodge FIR by becoming informant himself
and arrest the accused. It is said, "Power corrupts and absolute power
corrupts absolutely." Obviously the Police Officials cannot be exception.
Perhaps this unfettered power to arrest is a big reason that common citizens
are very much apprehensive of the Police.
Arrest
of young Pal Ghar women is sufficient to prove it. It is welcome that the Chief
Justice of India showed his displeasure on the ugly episode. The Police
Officials involved in arrest were placed under suspension since there were
large scale protests against arrest of innocent young women.
But thousands of innocent
persons are being arrested and languishing in jails after being
implicated in false cases. Shall anybody take the causeS of those hapless
persons?
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