New Delhi: As more skeletons and human remains continued to be unearthed from the house of horrors in Nithari on Thursday, the Supreme Court for the first time commented on the issue and blamed police inaction for the gory massacre of at least 17 women and children.
The apex court, while delivering a landmark ruling on police reforms, said that the killings could have been averted had the state government shown willingness to bring about police reforms.
"If checks and balances were there, Nithari would not have happened," a Bench headed by Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal was quoted by PTI as saying.
Strongly advocating the case for the urgent need of radical police reforms, the Bench - comprising of Justices C K Thakker and R V Raveendran - pointed out reasons for the mounting crime rates in India. "One problem in this country has been reluctance to register FIR and cases as this would reflect that the state's rime rates is going up,” they said.
The issue came up when counsel for Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, Rajeev Dhawan, who was explaining about the prevalent system of selection and appointment of the senior police officers, talked about it.
He pointed out that six officers were suspended by the state government in wake of the incident.
The statement assumed significance in the light of the apex court’s specific directions to state governments to implement police reforms in four weeks’ time.
One of the most important directions was to make police force more efficient has been to separate law and order from investigation wing.
The court by its September 22, 2006, has also directed to make policy for the selection and fixing the minimum two years tenure for the DGP and other senior police officers.
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