Orissa POST: Bhubaneswar: Sunday,
September 15, 2019.
The number of disgruntled
complainants in the Capital city who alleged police inaction is several times
more than the number in the Silver City.
This fact emerged from the
data obtained through RTI which confirmed that most of the grievance
applications received at the Commissioner’s Grievance Cell are against the
police stations in Bhubaneswar.
As many as 5,072 people in the twin city have approached the Commissioner of Police for
help in solving their cases pending at various police stations in the twin city
between 2017 and June 2019.
These complainants sought the intervention of the Police
Commissioner after the police stations had allegedly failed to deliver them
justice.
Meanwhile, the number of such
complainants who were deprived of justice stood at 689 in Cuttack Urban Police
District while it was 4383 in the Bhubaneswar Urban Police District. The figures indicate the
complaints registered in the Capital city were more than six times that of
Cuttack.
The report further reveals
that out of 1500 odd cases registered at the Khandagiri police station during the period
more than 44 per cent complainants (666)
lodged their resentment against poor investigation
process by the police. It also tops the list at the Commissioner’s Grievance
Cell in Bhubaneswar UPD. Similarly, most number of grievance applications
received against the Chauliaganj police station in Cuttack UPD.
Seventy-four complaints over
the poor response from Chualiaganj police station had been received at the
Grievance Cell during the same period against around 780 cases registered at the
police station in the same period. The number of unsatisfied complainants is
around 10 per cent in Chauliaganj police station as against 45 per cent in Khandagiri
police station.
The RTI reply bares the poor
performance of the Mahila Police Station in Bhubaneswar UPD in comparison to
the one in Cuttack UPD. There are 35 grievances registered at the Grievance Cell from 2007 till June 2019 against Mahila Police Station in Cuttack UPD while 85 grievances reported against
the Mahila Police Station in Bhubaneswar UPD. The percentage of disgruntled
complainants is around 12 per cent in Mahila Police Station in Cuttack as against 33 per cent in Bhubaneswar.
Meanwhile, out of the total
grievances registered at the cell as many as 4172 complaints have been
disposed of while the rest is awaiting justice.
Speaking on the issue,
Commissioner of Police, Sudhanshu Sarangi said, “We are trying to bring changes
in the system and we hope the situation will start improving in the coming 15 days. We will also work to solve the pending past cases sooner.”
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