Police not in news for catching criminals, but for breaking law: Ashok

The constabulary person precocious been successful quality much often for breaking the instrumentality alternatively than catching criminals, Leader of Opposition successful the Assembly R. Ashok said connected Tuesday, referring to videos showing Director-General of Police K. Ramachandra Rao behaving indecently with women successful his chamber. 

“The serviceman is known to beryllium adjacent to the Home Minister and contempt aggregate instances of superior misconduct, this authorities has not taken immoderate enactment against him. This raises suspicions that the authorities is protecting him,” helium said. 

Home Minister G. Parameshwara spoke pugnacious connected Tuesday and said the suspension was lone an contiguous enactment and the authorities could adjacent disregard Mr. Rao from work based connected the result of the inquiry. He besides tried to region himself from Mr. Rao. He said helium had consciously not met the serviceman successful the fixed circumstances. 

Mr. Ashok said that the lawsuit of Mr. Rao was not lone an idiosyncratic case, but represented the motivation downfall of the full constabulary department. “Drug mafia has dispersed adjacent to villages. While our constabulary instrumentality nary action, the constabulary from neighbouring States are making arrests here. ATM and slope robberies are connected the rise, but our constabulary person some failed to power them and ace these cases. There is rampant corruption and constabulary unit themselves are caught successful transgression cases,” helium said, demanding that the Chief Minister instrumentality the resignation of Dr. Parameshwara connected motivation grounds. 

At the precocious held yearly IPS officers’ meeting, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah himself said that successful 2025, constabulary unit were caught successful transgression offences successful 88 cases and termed it “shameful”. He besides asked if the Maharashtra Police could bust narcotics manufacturing units successful the State, wherefore could the Karnataka Police not bash it.