Police Not Taking Your Complaint ? Well, E-Mail It !

New Delhi, Mar 17 (UNI) President A P J Abdul Kalam today suggested equipping police stations with computers to which complaints may be e-mailed, if nobody registers them.

''In case nobody is registering the complaint, the complainant should have the option to send the complaint by e-mail to the concerned officer endorsing a copy of the complaint to the higher authorities whose e-mail id should also be widely published.'' ''Every complainant should get a receipt for the complaint launched with intimation to higher authorities.'' That suggestion was given by Dr Kalam at a national seminar on Delay in Administration of Criminal Justice.

''First of all every Station House Officer (SHO) of the police station should be instructed that he or she is bound to register the complaint immediately,'' he said.

''Every police station should be provided with a computer for registration of complaints and e-mail address of the SHO should be published.

''Procedures for registering of complaints should be widely publicised in leading newspapers and electronic media. The higher authorities should be apprised of the progress of the case by entering the status report in the police network.'' ''It must be made mandatory to all the police officers charged with filing of complaints to give an action taken report periodically within ten days to the superior officers. All police officers should abstain from pressurising the complainant to withdraw or compromise the complaint.'' ''If such circumstances are found, the higher authorities should listen to the complainant and take action against the erring police officers.'' UNI MJ RP GC1650