Cops favouring real estate agents

Police stations that have names of sponsors on their signboards or hoardings within the station premises will have to remove these. The National Human Rights Commission informed Gujarat police about this issue after observations by dalit activists and allegations of police giving undue favours to land mafias.

NHRC members, after meeting dalit victims and NGOs, opined that cops might be giving undue favours to real estate companies like Tulja Estate who sponsor signboards of police stations. Their names are also written on the signboards. Some trading companies too get their names written on such boards.Dalit activist Raju Solanki raised this issue on Monday and alleged that cops act as agents to these real estate firms, which eventually try to influence people with their 'contact'. He said this in an open forum in the presence of NHRC chairperson KG Balakrishnan and other members including BC Patel.

Reacting to this issue, in-charge director general of police Chitranjan Singh told DNA that a circular will soon be sent to police stations and such signboards will be removed. He said that the issue was mainly related to Ahmedabad city, where the names of some firms are written on sign boards of police stations. Singh also said that this was done to enhance police-public participation in the area.

NHRC has said that they have been given to understand by the police department that hoardings of private traders will not be displayed at police stations in future. Police sources said that the hoardings are mainly of real estate companies.

Source:www.dnaindia.com