PUNE As many as 61 policemen have been booked prior to now 4 years for various prices starting from rape, extortion, theft, molestation, corruption and different critical offences, in accordance to an information by Pune police

The information states that eight instances have been lodged in 2022 whereas 12 have been lodged in 2021.

Initially, most instances have been associated to corruption, however through the years, policemen have been discovered to be allegedly embroiled in instances associated to rape, extortion, dishonest and molestation and even issuing threats, noticed the information.

Based on the information tabulated from the police division, in 2019, out of 11 instances, 9 have been associated to corruption, whereas two have been associated to rape.Throughout 2020 lockdown interval, six offences in opposition to the police have been lodged. Two of them are associated to rape, two for demanding dowry and one every for extortion and corruption.

In 2021, 12 instances have been lodged, of which three every have been associated to corruption, rape; two for molestation, whereas the remaining have been for different crimes.

Civil society members have steered that a residents’ tribunal should be instituted to research the rising crimes being dedicated by the police and different departments.

“ These departments must be made accountable to the elected legislature and extra questions should be requested by the corporators, legislators, parliamentarians at public boards and citizen elected our bodies to make sure that acts of misdemeanor are stopped. Corruption instances have elevated. It isn't that each one policemen are concerned, however there's a small proportion from the decrease rung to the highest degree officers being concerned and this nexus should be handled strictly by trustworthy and honest police officers and the federal government,” mentioned famous prison lawyer advocate Milind Pawar.

Pawar additionally advocated conducting seminars and conferences on the subject and creating mass consciousness on the problem. For the reason that FIR’s have been lodged in tenures of various police officers, senior police officers of metropolis police refused to remark over the problem.

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Previous incidents

March 12, 2022

Constable Ganesh Ashok Jagtap (54) who was earlier posted with the particular department (SB), was arrested in a dishonest case for forging paperwork whereas making use of for the celebrated president’s police medal.

March 13, 2022

Three policemen from Dattawadi police station have been amongst 4 folks arrested by Thane police for looting a businessman of ₹45 lakh whereas he was carrying hawala money from Nashik to Mumbai.The three policemen have been recognized as Ganesh Shinde (35), Ganesh Kamble (34) and Dilip Pilane (32), whereas the hawala agent was recognized as Babubhai Solanki (47).

August 10, 2021

Police inspector Rajesh Puranik was booked beneath second FIR for thrashing an inside designer. Vishwas Namdev Jadhav (48) lodged an FIR.