Gehlot urges PM to consider making FIR registration a must on each complaint in country
Jaipur: Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to consider having a system of mandatory registration of FIRs on each compliant all over the country on lines of Rajasthan.
In his letter, Gehlot argued that making the FIR registration a must on each complaint may give an impression that the crime rate in an area has gone up drastically, but in reality, it is only the reporting of the incidents that go up.
And that, in turn, puts an effective check on the commission of the crime and leads to effective and preventive policing.
Referring to the policing innovations in Rajasthan, he said other states too can take advantage of this effective and sensitive system.
A system of mandatory registration of FIRs can be implemented across the country for maintaining law and order in an effective manner, he said.
In his letter, Gehlot said in order to remove the complexity in the registration of crimes, Rajasthan implemented a system of mandatory registration of FIRs in 2019.
As per this system, if a police station refuses to register an FIR, it can be lodged at the office of the district superintendent of police as well and refusal to lodge the case also entails a disciplinary action against erring officers, he said.
The chief minister said a mandatory FIR system is bound to jack up the crime figures in the state, a fact also recognized by the National Crime Record Bureau in its 2019 report.
The NCRB report, however, has also pointed out that there is a difference between the increase in crime and the increase in reporting and registration of crimes.
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Manipur: Mortal remains of children killed in bomb attack handed over to family
Imphal (PTI): The mortal remains of two children, who were killed in a bomb attack in Manipur's Bishnupur district in April, were handed over to family members on Saturday, officials said.
The bodies of the five-year-old boy and his six-month-old sister were kept in the morgue for 25 days, as the family members had refused to accept the mortal remains, demanding that the perpetrators be brought to book at the earliest.
On April 25, Chief Minister Y Khemchand Singh had appealed to the family members of the children to accept the bodies. Singh had also said that all efforts were underway to find the culprits.
The two children were killed in a bomb attack at Tronglaobi in Bishnupur district on April 7. Their bodies were kept in the morgue at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal.
The incident had triggered widespread violent protests in the five valley districts of Manipur, and the case was subsequently handed over to the NIA.
Hundreds of people lined up along the way to Tronglaobi to offer floral tributes, as the mortal remains were taken for the last rites in an open vehicle earlier in the day.
