Aam aadmi in High Court for Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force (BMTF) police

The petition challenging the state government’s decision to abolish the Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force (BMTF) police, which was formed with a good intention, has been adjourned.

The high court has sought some clarifications concerning the petition. D Devaraj and others have submitted that the BMTF is the only office where any common man can enter and seek redressal of his grievances, without waiting for long, facing humiliation and harassment at the hands of the officers. Due to the efforts of the BMTF and its efficient officers, there are number of instances where the cases—approximately 800—have been filed against the BBMP engineers.

The petitioners  have submitted that metropolitan centres have gone to the hands of the land mafia and that government officials are under the influence of the mafia.

It is the common knowledge that, mafia elements are ruling the peripheral areas of the Bangalore and urban as well as rural areas of Bangalore city as well as other cities in Karnataka.

Aggrieved by the possible abolition of BMTF just because it has brought to the limelight a number of government officials and some of the ministers as violators of the law, the petitioners claimed that the task force is under attack because of the initiation of the prosecution of these powers. This petition was being submitted by the petitioners in public interest, for a direction in the nature of writ of mandamus directing the respondent to extend/renew the tenure of the current BMTF.

The division bench headed by the chief justice DH Waghela has sought for the original document which the government had passed for the constitution of the BMTF to be submitted to the court on March 27.

@DNA