Due priority will be given to cases under IT Act - Hanumantharaya dcp
by Lisa Haydon Hanumantharaya dcpCity
police top brass on Sunday assured members of SC/ST community that plaints
regarding misuse of technology to harass individuals, spread rumors or create
social ill will, will be dealt on top priority. Suitable instruction will be
given to all station house officers (SHOs) to register case under relevant
sections of the Information Technology Act and even IPC as the case may be and
ensure that the perpetrators are brought to book, they maintained.
Taking
note of concerns expressed by Girish Kumar, community leader at monthly SC/ST
meeting on Sunday at perceived delay on part on women's police station in
investigating a case of a single woman being subjected to a barrage of vulgar
messages, Hanumantharaya, DCP (law and order) advised him to bring any such
grave lapses to the notice of senior officers. "This however is not an
excuse for the SHOs to be lax in discharging their duties in the first place,"
he said.
When
Girish persisted with his views that the victim Prabha (name changed) had been
facing the trauma for the last three months and she was not getting the police
to act against her perpetrator, Hanumantharaya reminded him that annually, an
average of 5,000 cases are registered in city police Commissionerate and
sincere efforts are made to investigate them. "Investigation into few
cases may get delayed along the way and this is by no means intentional,"
he said.
When
Lingappa Nanthoor of Dalit Rights Committee pointed that city police has a
baggage of many unsolved cases pertaining to SC/ST, Hanumantharaya said
department is reviewing all such cases for effective follow up. City police
will also activate departmental mechanism that mandates periodic updates of the
case to the complainants, he said adding officers of rank of DSP and above will
personally supervise and review progress in cases registered under SC/ST Act.
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