A one day 'Capacity Building Cum Legal Awareness Programme' has been slated for a fleet of IOs (investigating officers) who deal with cases of POCSO, crimes against women, motor accident claims and NDPS act. It's a kind of refreshing the capability of the IOs.
Secretary of the Palamu district legal services authority Arpit Shrivastava said, "Under the directive of JHALSA, our district legal services authority is going to hold capacity building cum legal awareness programme on December 15 for the benefit of the IOs dealing with cases of POCSO, crimes against women, motor accident claims and NDPS act."
"We expect to see 50 or 60 IOs participating in this high value capacity building programme," said Shrivastava.
Court sources said this one day capacity building programme for the IOs is to hone the skills of the investigating officer as a good investigation is a precursor to better prosecution and subsequently increased conviction of such offenders.
The more the conviction, the more the deterrence. However there is a wide gap between prosecution trial and conviction sentencing.
"There is a widespread perception that POCSO acts are for minor girls. No. This is not the fact at all. The POCSO act is for the minor boys too with the same intensity of law." reminded the secretary of the Palamu district legal services authority.
P K Prasad a civil society activist said "Sensitization to IOs in cases of crime against women is a must as in 4 cases out of 10, the victim woman against whom the crime has been committed, is suspected most lustily by the IO taking the victim woman to be of loose character."
In regard to the motor accident claim, there is a new tendency to refuse post mortem by the family where death has occurred in a road accident.
Medical Superintendent of the MMCH Daltonganj Dr Dharmendra Kumar told this newspaper "The bereaved family in a road accident case refuses to post mortem of the dead. They bandy words with the doctors and staff. They fly into a rage when told not to refuse a post mortem."
