Assam Congress leader suggests kabaddi training for police
The Hindu
Assam Opposition leader advises police to learn kabaddi to avoid "encounters" with escaping criminals.
GUWAHATI
A Congress legislator in Assam has advised the State police to learn kabaddi to avoid ‘encounters’ with people who happen to escape from their custody.
Debabrata Saikia, the leader of the Opposition in the 126-member Assembly, took a dig at the Assam police after a few incidents of shooting at alleged extremists.
“The Assam police personnel should undergo training for acquiring kabaddi skills that would help them hold back the arrested accused who try to escape from their grips,” he told journalists on December 25.
Mr. Saikia said extrajudicial killings or encounters to injure people who allegedly tried to escape from custody were illegal as a case about such incidents was being heard by the court.
There have been some 200 “encounters” between the State police and alleged criminals of various shades since May 2021, when the BJP-led government headed by Himanta Biswa Sarma took charge.
In an affidavit on June 20, 2022, the Assam government told the Gauhati High Court that 54 people had been killed in police action since 2021. These included extremists, drug smugglers, murderers, and cattle thieves apart from people accused of other crimes, the government said.
The All-India level NEET examination was started a few years ago to counter complaints of corruption during the joint entrance examinations held at the State level. AIDSO had warned the authorities that the solution to the menace of corruption was not changing the examination system, but to investigate the corruption and punish the guilty.