The provisions in the Criminal Procedure Code which protect policemen while discharging their duty from prosecution is grossly abused by the police to ignore court directives and quite often even court summonses until a warrant for their arrest is issued
Former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh is a whistle-blower of which there can be no doubt. It was Singh’s letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray levelling explosive allegations against Singh's boss, former home minister Anil Deshmukh, that landed the latter in jail. In revenge, Deshmukh signed an order for a probe against Singh before resigning.
In 2017, in what came to be known as Parivartan versus Union of India, the judgment of the Supreme Court was publicised in all law journals where the observation of the judges that the Union government was delaying the coming into force of The Whistle Blowers Protection Act, 2011. This new law had been passed by both houses of Parliament and even been approved by the President on May 9, 2014.
It is obvious that the government did not want to ensure this law would come into force because too many skeletons would come out, destabilising those who rule us. The archaic Official Secrets Act, 1927 which is the very antithesis of The Right to Information Act, 2005 and The Whistle Blowers Act, 2011 continues to be in force. Every minister and Governor takes the oath to uphold the Constitution and not to reveal state secrets. But what constitutes a state secret is itself the...
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