CSRL Super30 (Blog): 2011

Thursday, 17 November 2011

Once lawless Indian state turns guns into hoes - TrustLaw

Thursday, 22 September 2011

MAGADH Super30

Monday, 12 September 2011

DGP Abhayanand Brings Winds of Change!

DGP Abhayanand to make 40 Visits to 40 Districts of Bihar!

Wednesday, 7 September 2011

DGP Abhayanand bent upon winning back Aam Aadmi's faith in Bihar Police

DGP Abhayanand at the janata darbar in Patna on Monday

Choose Officers to Probe a Case
(Joy Sengupta,The Telegraph Reports)

Patna, Sept. 5: Dissatisfied with the performance of a police officer investigating your case? You can change him now, you just have to say it.

The state police headquarters has given directions to all police officers of the districts, asking them to immediately act upon a complaint against an investigating officer or supervising officer by the complainant.

The official concerned has to be replaced without any time being wasted.

Now, if a complainant wants the investigating officer of his or her case to be changed, it will be done immediately. No questions asked nor would the decision have to go through the usual maze of bureaucratic formalities.

Director-general of police Abhayanand, in a talk with The Telegraph on the sidelines of the chief minister’s janata darbar, said the move would help in infusing some amount of confidence among the people towards the police.

It was Abhayanand’s first attendance at the janata darbar after taking charge as DGP on August 31.

“There are many people who, in many ways, are dissatisfied with the performance of the investigating officer for their respective cases and want their removal and replacement. Earlier, the removal of the investigating officer depended upon the discretion of the senior officers. The police are planning to change this system now. If a complainant wishes the investigating officer to be removed, the senior police officer has to act upon the request immediately and carry out the change. No questions should be asked and it should be done immediately,” Abhayanand said.

The state police chief acknowledged the force was suffering from a crisis in confidence and that the people were wary about approaching the men in uniform.

“It is a fact that people have lots of complaints against the police. This move will at least give them the confidence that the police are listening to them and are working towards solving their problems,” he said.

Under the plan, a senior police officer in the district, who could be the station house officer (SHO) of a police station or the superintendent of police himself, should not question the complainant and should immediately replace the investigating officer. “This will give the people hope and assurance,” Abhayanand said.

The state police chief himself took the lead at the darbar.

He asked Patna senior superintendent of police Alok Kumar to act in accordance with the policy in connection with a case under the Alamganj police station of Patna City after a woman came and said she was not at all satisfied with the performance of the officer investigating her case.

“It is not that the replaced investigating officer will be held accountable for the alleged failure and action will be initiated unless the allegations are very serious and needs an investigation. But a replacement will have its effects,” Abhayanand said.

Also, the DGP said, a senior police officer supervising or holding investigations into any case of importance should immediately disclose the results of the supervision to those concerned with the case.

“There are quite a few important cases in which a senior police officer goes for an investigation. Directions have been issued that after the investigations, the officer should announce to the people about the course of the investigations, in which way things are moving and which party could be guilty.

“By doing this, the people will not have to wait to know the outcome of the police investigations. The people will be kept in the loop and will know in which way the investigations are heading. With the police officer on the field interacting with the people and telling them about the outcome, the people can expect more transparency,” Abhayanand told The Telegraph.

Police sources said that in most of the cases, the complainants remain dissatisfied with the officer investigating their cases.

“At the janata darbars of the superintendent of police, many people complain that the investigating officer is not doing a good job and that there are no proper investigations, arrests etc. With they being replaced immediately upon the request, things will get more clear and lucid,” a police officer in the state capital said.

Some other officers were sceptical, saying the order could be misused also. “Sometimes false cases are filed by people with vested interests. If they find the investigating officer is about to call their bluff, they could lodge a complaint and get him replaced. The idea is novel, but our bosses should be alert to such misuse of the order,” said an officer.

Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Hitherto The Super Teacher, Abhayanand now Also The TOP COP

Abhayanand, the co founder of 'Super 30' , one of the prestigious coaching institutes that grooms poor children for admission to the IITs, gets talking about his success story.

Abhayanand, the co- founder of the pioneering coaching institute, Super 30, that grooms poor children for admission to the prestigious IITs, is the new director- general of police ( DGP) in Bihar.

The 1977- batch IPS officer who was holding the post of ADG ( training), took charge from Neelmani, who retired on Wednesday.

Abhayanand became the senior- most police officer of the state 25 years after his father Jagdanand retired from the same post in 1986. He is likely to have a longer tenure as the state DGP than many of his predecessors since he is due to retire on December 31, 2014.

After assuming charge, Abhayanand said his immediate challenges were to ensure the credibility of the force and instil a sense of fear of the police in the minds of criminals.

“ I would also like that in the course of his duty, a policeman should rather be seen as a human being than as a law enforcer,” he said, stressing the need for the force to have a human face.

Known as an upright officer who has always called for making the state police a peoplefriendly force, Abhayanand shot to fame with the success of Super 30 that he co- founded with Anand Kumar, a young mathematician from Bihar, in 2003 to help underprivileged students make it to the IITs.

As a popular physics teacher, “ Abhayanand Sir”, as he is fondly called, remained part of Super 30 till he decided to disassociate himself with the institute in 2008.

In his first year with Super 30 in 2003, 18 of the 30 students of the institute cleared the IIT joint entrance examination. Five years later when he left, all the 30 students of Super 30 had qualified the JEE . In the past few years, he was associated with a few other institutes where he taught physics to the aspiring underprivileged students.

Abhayanand is also credited with the success of speedy trial of cases in Bihar, which was launched while he was the ADG ( headquarters) in 2006.

Later, during his tenure as the ADG at Bihar Military Police in Patna, he motivated the constables to donate generously from their salaries to metamorphose a dilapidated government hospital into a modern nursing home with state- of- the- art facilities for treatment of the family members of the police force.

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