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Focus on pending cases Law & order

“Justice delayed is justice denied” goes the adage. To ensure that the victims of criminal cases and the litigants are not made to wait endlessly for the logical conclusion of the case by the trial courts, the Coimbatore City Police are shifting their focus on pending trial and under-investigation cases in order to expedite the work.

Henceforth, the City Police would primarily focus on speeding up investigations in long-pending cases besides supplementing the efforts of the judiciary in disposing of long-pending trial cases. Stepping up the pace of investigations, the City Police Commissioner, C.K. Gandhirajan, had exhorted the police officers to ensure that the pending non-bailable warrants were executed on time. He also stressed the need for providing court escorts for producing the accused before the court besides witnesses on the hearing dates so as to ensure that no case was adjourned owing to the lapse or fault on the part of the prosecuting agency. By promptly producing the witnesses before the courts on time, the City Police was able to supplement the efforts of the judiciary in disposing of cases.

Fullest co-operation from an investigating officer in a case and the overall support of the prosecuting agency in producing witnesses and accused before the courts on time could help in disposal of cases at the earliest, Mr. Gandhirajan said. Adjournments caused by extraneous reasons other than the prosecuting agency was understandable. In Coimbatore city as on December 31, 2006 as many as 722 cases were under investigation and this year till November 30 as many as 6,182 cases were reported. Till November 30, investigation in 5,886 cases were completed, thus registering 85 per cent disposal.

As far as cases that were pending trial before various courts were concerned, the City Police had 3,975 cases pending trial as on December 31, 2006 and 4,945 cases were reported till November 30. The judiciary had disposed of 4,829 cases during the current year, registering 54 per cent disposal in pending trial cases category leaving 4,091 cases as pending trial as on date. In respect of the non-bailable warrants on January 1, 2007, the City Police had 118 pending and during the current year till November 30, the police had received about 524 warrants putting the total at 642. During the last 11 months till December 10, the police had executed 442 warrants putting the pending non-bailable warrants at 200.

On the steps to be taken for executing warrants, Mr. Gandhirajan said that all Inspectors and Assistant Commissioners of Police had been instructed to form special parties to nab the accused. Night rounds officers have been asked to be on the lookout for those against whom warrants were pending. Supervisory officers in the rank of Deputy Commissioners had been asked to closely review the progress made in speeding up investigations and in charge-sheeting the under investigation cases and in executing pending non-bailable warrants.

Through these measures, the City Police hope to bring down the percentage of under-investigation and pending trial cases to ensure that justice was not delayed and the litigants and victims were not made to go through an agonising endless wait for logical conclusion of the cases.

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