Sir,
Recently, the Supreme Court has ordered that CCTV cameras should be installed at all police stations in the country in order to ensure transparency in police functioning. Indeed, this is a welcome step in protecting the basic rights of suspects, or the accused more so when the law considers all the accused as innocent until they are declared guilty by a court.However, the ground realities prevailing in the country are altogether different. In most of the cases, innocent are just picked up either at the wink of a powerful, or an influential person or at the whims and fancies of the men in khakhi.Moreover, what is strange is that when our courts have repeatedly hailed that any statement made before the police by an accused u/s 161 of Cr. P.C is of no value for deciding the matter before the court, in most of the cases under the garb of extracting confession,the police indulges in third degree practices. Still what is more baffling is that even when an accused voluntarily admits his guilt, some policemen derive pleasure in cleaning their hands’ on him. It is unfortunate that some of the policemen consider themselves above the law and boast that nothing can prevent them from using brutal force on anybody. Though the idea of installing CCTV cameras in the police stations is good, but it is doubtful whether the same would yield the desired results. The policemen, especially corrupt ones know that there are a more than a hundred ways to circumvent the CCTV camera eye. The torture, harassment, extortion and all sorts of atrocities can be easily perpetrated on the branded suspects, or the accused by the police if not within the police station limits, but the whole world outside.
Vijaykumar H K
T-6 RTPS Colony
Shaktinagar- 584170, Raichur, Karnataka
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