Time to put lens on atrocities by babus, police: CJI Ramana

Mulls Committee Headed By HC CJs To Examine Citizens’ Plaints

- Dhananjay.Mahapatra

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday stepped up the heat on power-drunk bureaucrats and police officers, who willingly become tools in the hands of regimes to carry out illegal orders from their political masters, by saying that it is mulling setting up a standing committee in each state headed by the high court chief justice to scrutinize citizens’ complaints against them.

A bench headed by CJI N V Ramana said, “I have a lot of reservations about the way in this country bureaucrats, particularly the police officers, are behaving. At one time, I was thinking of creating a standing committee headed by the chief justice of HCs to examine the atrocities of bureaucrats and police officers and complaints made against them. But, I do not want to do it now. The matter will come again.”