RK Singh has asked constituting a nodal office under every director general of police headquarters to monitor on going cases against Maoist leaders.
Worried at the poor conviction rate of Maoist leaders, the ministry of home affairs (MHA) has asked the affected states to regularly track cases against them to ensure they are not let off in want of evidence.
In a letter written to nine Maoist-affected states, Union home secretary RK Singh has asked constituting a nodal office under every director general of police headquarters to monitor on going cases against Maoist leaders.
To begin with, the nodal offices under the direct supervision of the DGPs have been asked to retrieve information from districts and prepare a database of all cases and classify them under three heads — state, zonal and district — according to the importance of the Maoist leaders.
The nodal offices will be mandated to keep all the relevant details of each case in proper format and update them regularly.
The decision was arrived at after the MHA found out that the states police headquarters did not have information of cases against Maoist leaders which was reflecting bad trials and poor conviction rate.
One such recent example, sources said, is the Atmakur sub-division court in Andhra Pradesh that had to quash two cases against Maoist leader Sagar alias N Panduranga Reddy due to lack of witnesses and weak evidence. Sagar was facing charges in connection with encounter at Burugulakottala in Nallamala forest on March 24, 2003 and claymore mine blast at Veerabhadra Swamy on June 1, 2003.
“Most of the cases against Maoist leaders are currently being decided at the district level without any knowledge or proper tracking at the state level. Today, we even do not know how many cases are there in all against Maoist leaders. In some cases it has been found out that in the absence of an efficient public prosecutor despite having strong evidence cases have gone in favour of the accused. The database will help collate strong evidence with the state and across states and help police defend charges,” a senior government official said.
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