Communal harmony, fairness is of utmost importance: Asthana
The Hindu
Police Commissioner lays emphasis on community engagement, scientific probes
An Open House will be held for Delhi Police officials every Friday for those who want to share grievances, Commissioner of Police Rakesh Asthana said during an address on Saturday. Mr. Asthana’s video address was attended by over 10,000 police personnel of all ranks. Assuring that no police person shall face any difficulty for bonafide discharge of duty, Mr. Asthana reportedly said it is the job of the senior leadership to take care of the force as mentors and not find faults with them unnecessarily. In addition to the Open House, fairness and transparency will be ensured in matters of postings and transfers “by taking into account the strength and expertise of the officers, which will be examined by the Police Establishment Board”. “In this regard, an exercise has been launched by an internal committee to categorise police stations in terms of their intensity of law and order, crime, communal sensitivity, VIP intensiveness and logistics intensiveness for posting of appropriately skilled officers to bring in more professionalism,” the police said in a statement.A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.