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<p style="text-align:justify">Police has been in the news recently, mostly for the wrong reasons. Let us recall some of the glaring incidents that have crossed the limits of the rule of law to contextualise the discussion on police reforms in India.</p>

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<p style="text-align:justify">Three police organisations were in the news when Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activist Tejinder Pal Bagga was arrested by Punjab Police from his Delhi residence for a comment on Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on 6 May and the Punjab police team was intercepted by Haryana and Delhi police teams to &lsquo;rescue&rsquo; him. &nbsp;This was the first instance of police versus police guided from the top since independence; extreme politicisation of the police was written all over it.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Outrageously, Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani was arrested from Palanpur in Gujarat by Assam Police on April 20 for an ostensible tweet against the prime minister. &nbsp;He was released on bail the same afternoon by a local court, but immediately rearrested on a first information report by a lady police officer in Barpeta for using abusive language against her while he was taken from one place to other.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://thewire.in/law/police-reform-via-new-legislation-should-not-dilute-state-role">click here</a> to read more.&nbsp;</p>
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As the police reform discourse has begun again, let us recall some of the glaring incidents that have crossed the limits of the rule of law.

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Police Reform via New Legislation Should Not Dilute State Role -Ajay K Mehra

-TheWire.in As the police reform discourse has begun again, let us recall some of the glaring incidents that have crossed the limits of the rule of law. Police has been in the news recently, mostly for the wrong reasons. Let us recall some of the glaring incidents that have crossed the limits of the rule of law to contextualise the discussion on police reforms in India. The Justice V.S. Sripurkar Commission set up by the Supreme Court for an inquest into the killing of four ‘accused’ in the gang-rape and murder of a veterinarian on the outskirts of Hyderabad in 2019 has found it to be a false encounter, in which innocents, including three minors were killed. It has indicted the police for firing on the accused ‘with an intent to cause their death’ and recommended legal action against the ten policemen involved in the case. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath summarily removed state’s DGP Mukul Goel on 12 May for inefficiency and ‘neglecting work’. So sudden was the move that additional charge had to be handed over to an additional director general of police. Obviously, the mechanism and procedure of appointing police chief recommended by the Supreme Court’s 2006 directive is not in place in UP, as in most states. Three police organisations were in the news when Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activist Tejinder Pal Bagga was arrested by Punjab Police from his Delhi residence for a comment on Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on 6 May and the Punjab police team was intercepted by Haryana and Delhi police teams to ‘rescue’ him.  This was the first instance of police versus police guided from the top since independence; extreme politicisation of the police was written all over it. Outrageously, Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani was arrested from Palanpur in Gujarat by Assam Police on April 20 for an ostensible tweet against the prime minister.  He was released on bail the same afternoon by a local court, but immediately rearrested on a first information report by a lady police officer in Barpeta for using abusive language against her while he was taken from one place to other. Please click here to read more.