BHUBANESWAR: The Crime Branch has requested police stations to promptly sign up circumstances of crime towards women regardless of the jurisdiction of the offences. "Police officers cannot deny lodging of complaints of women victims on grounds of jurisdiction," stated a CB round dispatched to all SPs and range IGs a couple of days in the past. It outlined the strategies of investigation into circumstances of crime towards women. TOI has a duplicate of the round.
Crime Branch, which is the nodal agency to oversee investigations of police across the state, stated women sufferers of quite a lot of offences have the fitting to lodge complaint at any police station.
"It is like a zero FIR system where the offence committed at a place does not come under the jurisdiction of the police station where it is reported. We often found that police stations scared away complainants on the ground that the incidents might have taken place outside their jurisdiction. All police stations have strictly been asked to accept complaints, promptly register cases and transfer the case to the appropriate police station under whose jurisdiction the crime took place," a Crime Branch officer stated.
Director General of Police R P Sharma stated unfastened and advised registration of circumstances, high quality investigation and expeditious prosecution finishing in conviction of the offenders have all alongside been the thrust house to battle the risk.
Sharma stated the police headquarters as well as the Crime Branch often factor standard running procedures (SOPs) to districts, explaining a collection of tips that want to be adopted by means of policemen whilst dealing with circumstances of crime towards women. Additional director common of police (Crime Branch) Santosh Upadhyay stated investigating officials are being sensitised about amendments in Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).
In the previous few weeks, circumstances on the subject of alleged sexual attack on children got here to the fore often, giving fodder to the opposition events to mount assault on the executive and police.
According to stats available with Odisha police, there has been a rise in rape circumstances, including the ones of minors in 2017 in comparison to 2016.
Out of total 2,144 rape circumstances registered in 2016, a minimum of 1,204 circumstances involved minors. In 2017, the full registration of rape court cases climbed to two,221, which included 1,283 circumstances involving minors.
Last week, Sharma stated accused in all the ones circumstances were arrested. In most circumstances, the accused have been kinfolk of the sufferers, he added. "We found that in some cases, minor boys and girls had eloped. Later, police registered rape cases against boys following complaints lodged by the parents of minor girls," an officer stated.
Crime Branch, which is the nodal agency to oversee investigations of police across the state, stated women sufferers of quite a lot of offences have the fitting to lodge complaint at any police station.
"It is like a zero FIR system where the offence committed at a place does not come under the jurisdiction of the police station where it is reported. We often found that police stations scared away complainants on the ground that the incidents might have taken place outside their jurisdiction. All police stations have strictly been asked to accept complaints, promptly register cases and transfer the case to the appropriate police station under whose jurisdiction the crime took place," a Crime Branch officer stated.
Director General of Police R P Sharma stated unfastened and advised registration of circumstances, high quality investigation and expeditious prosecution finishing in conviction of the offenders have all alongside been the thrust house to battle the risk.
Sharma stated the police headquarters as well as the Crime Branch often factor standard running procedures (SOPs) to districts, explaining a collection of tips that want to be adopted by means of policemen whilst dealing with circumstances of crime towards women. Additional director common of police (Crime Branch) Santosh Upadhyay stated investigating officials are being sensitised about amendments in Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).
In the previous few weeks, circumstances on the subject of alleged sexual attack on children got here to the fore often, giving fodder to the opposition events to mount assault on the executive and police.
According to stats available with Odisha police, there has been a rise in rape circumstances, including the ones of minors in 2017 in comparison to 2016.
Out of total 2,144 rape circumstances registered in 2016, a minimum of 1,204 circumstances involved minors. In 2017, the full registration of rape court cases climbed to two,221, which included 1,283 circumstances involving minors.
Last week, Sharma stated accused in all the ones circumstances were arrested. In most circumstances, the accused have been kinfolk of the sufferers, he added. "We found that in some cases, minor boys and girls had eloped. Later, police registered rape cases against boys following complaints lodged by the parents of minor girls," an officer stated.
Women can complain of crime in any police station: Crime Branch writes to SPs
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