Plea filed in Supreme Court seeking 'model police bill'

The petition alleged that the 1990 Kashmir killings did not only happen in the dark of the night but in broad daylight as well “because what we have is ruler’s police not the people’s police”

A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking constitution of a ‘model police bill’ to make policing system “transparent, independent, accountable and people-friendly”. The petition, filed by advocate and former Delhi BJP spokesperson Ashwini Upadhyay, sought a direction to the Centre to constitute a ‘judicial commission’ or an expert committee to examine the Police Act of developed countries, particularly the U.S., Singapore and France and draft the ‘model police bill’. The PIL, which is likely to come up for hearing in the coming days, also urged the court to direct the Law Commission of India to examine police acts of these countries for drafting the bill in order to make the police system “efficient, effective, transparent, sensible, accountable and techno-savvy, and to secure ‘rule of law’ and right to life, liberty and dignity of citizens”.