Odisha chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Thursday mentioned police stations in Odisha couldn’t refuse to register a primary info report (FIR) and that they have been certain to register a case even when the crime hasn’t been dedicated of their jurisdiction.
“This can be known as ‘Zero FIR’ and can be despatched to the respective police station for additional due course of,” Majhi mentioned at a sensitisation programme on Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Lok Seva Bhawan in Bhubaneswar.
“Furthermore, the police personnel can’t name a disabled individual, a minor beneath 15 years of age or these above 60 to the police station, besides in unavoidable circumstances,” he mentioned, asking the police to resolve youngster intercourse abuse circumstances registered beneath the Safety of Kids from Sexual Offences Act inside 60 days.
Majhi, who accused the earlier Biju Janata Dal (BJD) regime of failing to implement the rule of regulation as a consequence of lack of political will, mentioned there was no dearth of legal guidelines to cope with varied crimes in our nation.
“The earlier authorities talked about girls empowerment every single day. What sort of girls’s empowerment they achieved is past anybody’s comprehension,” he mentioned, including that the conviction charge of crimes in opposition to girls was in single digits in Odisha.
In response to knowledge compiled by the Nationwide Crime Information Bureau’s (NCRB) report for 2022, the conviction charge for these crimes in Odisha was 9.3% as in comparison with 70.8% in Uttar Pradesh, 68% in Mizoram and 60.9% in Bihar.
“What I imply to say is that there are solely two causes for this shameful scenario in Odisha, the primary is that the investigation is sloppy and the second is the dearth of political will. However, this won’t work now. I’ve advised the Legislative Meeting that the criminals needs to be reformed, in any other case the federal government wouldn’t spare them. Within the final assembly of District Magistrates and SPs, I’ve mentioned all of the pending circumstances of violence in opposition to girls in varied police stations, police stations and courts of the state needs to be disposed rapidly and steps needs to be taken to punish them,” he mentioned.
