New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday issued notice to the federal government and the states on a petition seeking a transparent recruitment process (TRP) in police constabularies in the states which is generally mired in allegations of wrongdoing and bribery.
The bench of Justice T S Thakur, Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice R Bhanumathi issued notice on NGO Lokniti Foundation’s plea for direction to the Centre and the states to “adopt and implement the TRP, developed and recommended by the National Police Mission” for the “recruitment (of) police personnel... and to modify the relevant police recruitment/service rules”.
The petition said “a police personnel who has been recruited on the basis of payment of a bribe will naturally like to immediately recover the price paid by him at the time of his selection, by resorting to corrupt and illegal means”.
“A person who enters the police force through corrupt means cannot be expected to perform his duties of maintenance of law and order and detection of crime in a fair and just manner irrespective of all other qualities and capabilities,” the petition said.
Counsel Ashok Dhamija, appearing for the NGO, said that on January 1, 2009, there were about 530,580 vacancies for constables in states as against the total sanctioned strength of about 20,56,041 posts.
This was about 25 percent of the total police force.
IANS
