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Gill hails Advani’s amnesty statement New Delhi, August 20 He
said a large number of cases of human rights violations against police officers and personnel in Punjab were politically motivated and false and that based on concoted evidence by investigative agencies acting under undue and extra-constitutional pressures. The former Punjab DGP demanded a constitutional commission for examining functioning of judicial institutions in situations of widespread terror in Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and the north-east. The Commission should identify the judicial officers who failed to discharge their constitutional obligations and were subsequently found to be politically aligned with disruptive forces after their retirement It should also determine their accountability and take suitable action to ensure that judicial institutions and the criminal justice system did not collapse in the face of future lawlessness. He pointed out that front organisations of terrorist outfits had exploited systematically legal processes in the name of human rights violations to harass and demoralise the security forces and to promote the objectives of terrorists Mr Gill demanded that low intensity warfare and terrorism must be recognised as widespread breakdown of normal structures of governance and the need for powers and legal processes distinct from those that prevail in peace must be accepted. “Until the necessary criteria are legislated, immediate steps should be taken to ensure that the pattern of humiliation of policemen through litigation and trial by the media is prevented. Investigations and trials should not proceed according to the processes that are being improvised from day to day to implicate policemen in various theatres of present conflict as well as in Punjab,” Gill said. He exphasised that the affiliations, functions and funding of so-called human rights agencies should be statutorily monitored and completely transparent. At the same time, motivated
campaigns of calumny and allegations of human rights violations that defame individuals and institutions with no basis should be strictly penalised. |
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