Kerala has 850 'tainted' policemen *Pioneer News Service | Thiruvananthapuram* The Kerala Police has 850 criminally accused persons as personnel, according to a report received from the district police headquarters and from the various police departments on the basis of a request filed under the Right to Information Act.
According to data available, 15 policemen are accused in murder and 67 are facing rape and molestation charges in the Kerala Police. Many of these accused policemen have been involved in serious offences like murder, rape, forgery, cheating and other cases. Interestingly, several of these officers and policemen are still in service and only some have been dismissed. Fourteen of these policemen are in Intelligence wing, and of these 12 are in the Special Branch CID and two are in security wing. They are either constables or head constables. A police official of the VVIP security wing is an accused in a rape case. The rest are accused in cases like housebreaking, theft, attacks using sharp weapons, cheating, impersonation and land acquisition. Forty-seven serving Crime Branch policemen are accused in various cases. They include one DySP, four Circle Inspectors and six Sub Inspectors. Among them, there are seven murder accused and one rape accused. They include policemen who are accused in the infamous Udayakumar murder case, which had rocked the State during the previous UDF regime. There are rape accused policemen in the Crime Branch department and a DySP is involved in a criminal case of threatening. No official of this department has so far been dismissed from service under charges of criminal offence. Three Circle Inspectors and two constables are accused under the jurisdiction of North Zone IG office. One person in the Thrissur KAP battalion is an accused in two housebreaking cases. Information available from various district headquarters shows that Thiruvananthapuram tops the list with 110 policemen in the list of criminally accused. One DySP and 10 Sub Inspectors are criminally accused from this district. The cases range from liquor-related to prostitution. Kollam has 73 policemen who are involved in various criminal cases. In Kottayam district, there are 54 policemen who are in the criminals' list, including DySP Shaji, an accused in the Praveen murder case. A Circle Inspector and four Sub Inspectors are also involved in criminal cases from this district. One traffic constable is an accused in a theft case and a molestation case. There is a DySP involved in a housebreaking case and another in rape case in Kannur district. One Circle Inspector and three Sub Inspectors of the district are also accused in rape case and forgery. Two woman constables are also in the criminals' list and the district has 21 serving criminally accused policemen. Pathanamthitta district has 17 policemen involved in criminal cases including one DySP, two Circle Inspectors and two Sub Inspectors in addition to the constables. They are criminally accused in cases like suicide, riots, housebreaking and molestation. Idukki has 39 policemen in the list of accused in cases ranging from homosexual acts to rape and molestation and cheating. Of these, nine policemen were removed from service. Kozhikode district has 15 policemen involved in criminal cases, which include cheating in visa related cases. Nine policemen have been removed from service from this district. Palakkad has 51 policemen, who are in the list of criminals in cases like rape and in Kasargod there are 17 policemen who have committed serious crimes, while in Alappuzha there are 50 policemen who are facing cases for handling explosives. Wynad has 36 policemen involved in various cases while Kochi has 30 policemen involved in criminal cases. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is a battle for freedom. It is a battle for the reclamation of human personality." - Dr BR Ambedkar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala run by Global Alternate Information Applications (GAIA) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
