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CHANDIGARH: Taking cognizance of number of complaints of police excesses pending with Human Rights Commission and other Criminal cases registered with police going northward as reported in press, former Punjab Minister and Spokesperson of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, Jagmohan Singh Kang, Friday expressed great concern and urged the Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to gear up the administration and ensure law and order in the state at any cost in larger public interest.
Kang said that during the first half of this year up to September, 2007, more than 12,000 complaints of police excesses and highhandedness had been received by the rights commission, whereas during the previous year this number was nearly 9000. Out of total of 13417 cases, 12143 cases of police atrocities and excesses were pending with the commission. He said that this corroborates the fact that false cases were being registered against congress workers/leaders by the SAD-BJP Government.
Kang lamented that unfortunately, the state had also witnessed an alarming increase in criminal cases, as well, ever since the SAD-BJP regime took over the reins of governance. He said that the Punjab Government had in fact failed on all fronts as per the different parameters of success/failure and “Law and order had taken backseat.” He added that it could be gauged from the fact that during the current year more than 15,100 criminal cases had already been registered in six months, whereas this figure was only 14,115 during the previous fiscal year. To bring home the point, Kang quoting figures said that during the previous year 472, 621, 677, 25, 338, 2415 and 7653 cases of kidnapping, murder, attempt to murder, Dacoity, Rape, theft and smuggling of drugs respectively were registered with police, while during the current year 601, 610, 655, 30, 407, 3100 and 7059 cases respectively against the aforesaid crimes have already been registered till date. He said that this alarming increase in crime rate showed disgusting and grim situation in the state and called for serious introspection and remedial steps to arrest, so that the state may not be driven to old black days of militancy.
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