New Delhi, February 06: A former top police official has said that police should be isolated from political pressure so that people like the Thackerays can be prosecuted under the National Security Act.
“There is this problem in Mumbai… what Raj Thackeray has said, what Uddhav Thackeray has said… they have gone mad. What struck me immediately was… imagine a situation where Mr Sivanandhan (Mumbai police commissioner) has this in mind that he has to enforce the law of land… he would book them under NSA and send them behind bars,” former Director General of BSF Prakash Singh said.
How many tragedies this country will witness, he said adding people should raise their voice and help to change the system.
Singh, who has filed petitions in the Supreme Court related to police reforms and was also the police chief of Uttar Pradesh and Assam police in his 34-year career said police should be kept “politically insulated.”
He said a senior police officer, while performing his duties, should have the feeling that nothing will happen to him… and he has a fixed tenure of two years and that he is answerable to the law of the land.
–PTI