No Indian state is fully compliant with 14-year-old Supreme Court directives for police reforms, an analysis by the international non-profit Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative has found. Of the 28 states, only two – Andhra Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh – were partially compliant with the five binding directives included in the analysis. All the other states have failed to comply, as per the international non-profit’s report.
The set of seven directives, aimed at kick-starting reforms, was introduced based on a public interest litigation filed in 1996. Despite various National Police Commission recommendations made since 1979, successive governments did not implement major recommendations. The 1996 PIL, filed by two former director generals of police, Prakash Singh and NK Singh, asked the Supreme Court to direct governments to implement the recommendations. A decade…
