Will hold probe against police on Bidar school incident: govt.

‘Some personnel were found to be in uniform while questioning students’

The State government on Friday told the High Court of Karnataka that a departmental inquiry would be conducted on the violation of rights of children by the police in conducting a probe into a sedition case registered against a school in Bidar and appropriate action taken based in the inquiry. A submission in this regard was made before a Division Bench comprising acting Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum during the hearing of a PIL petition filed by city-based advocate Nayana Jyothi Jhawar and the South India Cell For Human Rights Education and Monitoring, an NGO, who had complained that the police had violated provisions of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2016. The government said the Director-General and Inspector-General of Police passed an order for holding departmental inquiry as some of the police personnel were found to be in their uniform contrary to the law that prescribes that the police, as far as possible, should be in plain clothes while counselling/questioning the juveniles.