Mumbai Police expressed objection on the report of Praja Foundation
Mumbai Praja Foundation Report: Praja Foundation has announced the report ‘Current State of Policing and Law and Order in Mumbai 2023’ which brings to the fore the worrying reality of crime in Mayanagar. The Home Department should take serious cognizance of this report and give priority to improving law and order, it has been said in this report. In this report, it has been told about the improvement in police system, nature and scale of crime, sexual crimes against children and cyber crimes increasing day by day. Along with this, the report also revealed that there is a huge shortage of manpower in the police force. However, Mumbai Police has objected to this data. Seven reform guidelines important: Praja Foundation Chairman Milind Mhaske said, “On the one hand, we have a dream of creating world-class facilities in Mumbai. On the other hand, the complexity of life also poses problems.
The importance of maintaining law and order in such a world-class city cannot be ignored.” Protection of people from all types of crimes will be ensured only when crime registration, investigation and judicial process is done efficiently. From this point of view, he said, “The police system mentioned by the Supreme Court in the decision of Prakash Singh vs. Government of India in 2006 is very important.” Told this time. Former Maharashtra Director General of Police Sanjeev Dayal issued a standing order on 24 May 2015 titled ‘The investigation machinery in cases going to the Sessions Court should be independent of the law and order machinery.’ However, among the five police divisional offices of Mumbai Three have informed us that data from the Independent Investigation Cell is not available in their records. Along with this, order was also given to establish Police Complaint Authority to increase the confidence of citizens in the police system.
Accordingly, the Government of Maharashtra created the State Police Complaints Authority on 25 May 2015. But, we have not been able to get any information about this in RTI – Milind Mhaske, President of Praja Foundation. 105 percent increase in crimes against women: According to a report released by Praja Foundation, in the 10 years from 2013 to 2022, recorded crimes of rape and molestation in Mumbai have increased by almost 105 percent, from 391 to 901. Respectively. Of the total rape cases registered in 2022, 63 per cent were rape cases against minor girls and were registered under the POCSO Act. Of the cases registered under POCSO, 73 percent were pending at the end of 2022.
The report also said that in 2018, the vacancy rate in the Mumbai police system was 22 percent, which is expected to increase to 30 percent by 2022. 22 percent posts of investigation officers are vacant: Out of the total sanctioned posts of crime investigation officers, 22 percent posts were lying vacant till July 2023. A total of 44 percent of cases were pending for forensic testing by the end of 2022. By March 2023, there was a 39 per cent shortage of staff in the respective forensic departments. Cyber crimes have increased by 243 percent between 2018 and 2022. That means their number has increased from 1375 to 4723.
The number of credit card scams and fraud cases has increased from 471 to 3490 during the same period. According to Praja Foundation, the detection rate of reported cyber crimes in 2022 is only 8 percent. Mumbai Police expressed objection to the report: In the press conference held on Thursday, Praja Foundation announced the statistics of violence against women. However, Mumbai Police has objected to this data. Satyanarayan Chaudhary, Joint Commissioner of Police, Law and Order Department of Mumbai Police told ETV Bharat about this. Satyanarayan Chaudhary said that “Last year, 1957 cases were registered under Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code i.e. molestation of women.
This year 1782 cases have been registered. Out of 1782 cases registered this year, 80 percent of the cases have been solved.” This year, 175 fewer crimes have been registered and the crime solving rate has increased by 13 percent. Similarly, 589 cases of molestation of women were registered last year under section 509 of the Indian Penal Code, while 528 cases have been registered this year. If we look at these figures, 61 less crimes have been registered this year. 87 percent of crimes have been solved. Last year 67 percent crimes were solved. While talking to ETV Bharat, Joint Police Commissioner Satyanarayan Chaudhary said that this year the rate of solving marks has increased by 20 percent.
