New Delhi (PTI): "In this country you need huntering (flogging) to make you work," the Supreme Court on Friday said while venting its anger on babus and top police officials for their failure to respond on an issue related to punishing errant cops who refuse to register FIRs on public complaints.

"Is this Ramrajya in this country...So this is swaraj. This is the concept of swaraj," said a bench of Justices B N Agrawal and G S Singhvi, while lamenting the attitude of the top bureaucrats and the frequent complaints of citizens that policemen do not register FIRs promptly.

While granting two more weeks to chief secretaries/DGsP and police commissioners to file their response, the apex court warned that if the top bureaucrats fail to respond it would direct their personal attendance in the next hearing.

The bench gave vent to its anguish as barring Uttar Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh, no state or Union Territory had so far responded to its July 14 directions.

On July 14, the bench had ordered that a citizen whose his/her FIR is not registered can approach a judicial magistrate for direction to the police officer concerned to register the FIR.