Nithari not law-and-order problem: Amar

BLAME GAME: Amar Singh said there are many Nitharis are happening in other Congress-ruled states.

      

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Karan Thapar:Also one other thing. 45,000 children have been disappearing or being killed in India is a terrible story.

Amar Singh: Only in Mumbai.

Karan Thapar: But it's no consolation for Nithari. It doesn't improve the police performance in Nithari. So, let's come back to the police because I think the police in Nithari concern people. You accepted a moment ago that they had ignored the report filed in August 2005 by the National Commission for Women.

Amar Singh: No, no. There are some lacunae in the law. It needs to be changed.

Because the reports of missing children were being registered, but it was not deemed as a crime. Because, unless it is a specific case of kidnapping and murder...

Karan Thapar: But you see, it was just six children in August 2005, eight months later the tally of people missing had risen to 12. And at that point of time, parents were reporting that the police were refusing to register FIRs.

Amar Singh: Karan, my humble submission is, it's a failure of the system, I agree. The guilty policemen have been taken to task. We have given a compensation of Rs 5 lakh for each victim, but we do feel that it's no compensation to human life. I am also a father of children.

Karan Thapar: Let's come back to the system. You say it's a failure of the system. I put it to you it's a failure not just of the system, but specifically a failure of the UP police. Let me quote to you two things. First of all, the report of the Ministry of Women and Child Development.

Referring to a period in the middle of 2006, "it says the police were highly uncooperative and even abusive to the victims' families. The victims' families were chided for drawing unfavourable police attention to the village. Far from being helpful and cooperative, they were attacking the victims' families." That was the response of the police.

Amar Singh: Let me tell you, Karan, my only humble submission is that on the New Year's Day in Mumbai, in the presence of thousands of people, a lady is disrobed. A policeman rapes a girl in the police station. And at the same time, the Supreme Court comes out with a diktat that not even a sub-inspector can be transferred.

Karan Thapar: You are right in saying that police commit atrocities all over the country. But that is no consolation to the victims of Nithari, also that doesn't absolve the UP police of inaction and inaptitude. Let's come back to UP, because it's important.

Amar Singh: If you have come with the mindset that you will discuss only one incident, I am saying it's a gruesome incident. I am very ashamed that it happened in our state. I agree with all that.

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