Probe Into Cops’ Crimes: 53 SC lawyers for forming independent commission

Fifty-three Supreme Court lawyers yesterday collectively sent a legal notice to the government, requesting it to constitute an independent commission to investigate the allegations against law enforcers of committing crimes.

Mohammad Shishir Manir, one of the lawyers, served the legal notice on behalf of all 53 lawyers to the home secretary, law secretary and the inspector general of police, asking them to form the commission titled the "Police Complaint Investigation Commission" within four weeks.

They said in the legal notice that a section of law enforcers were  reportedly involved in 18 different types of crime, including extra judicial killing, custodial torture and deaths, enforced disappearances, rapes,  stalking and drug trading.

Around 500 incidents of such offences have reportedly taken places since January 2017 to July 2020, the legal notice said.

It further stated that law enforcers conduct inquiries into the allegations against themselves, and therefore, the probes are not done fairly and neutrally.

The lawyers said that there were independent commissions in different  countries such as the USA, the UK, France, India and Pakistan to conduct investigate allegations against law enforcers.

They added that they will take appropriate legal steps if an independent commission is not formed in this regard.