Police personnel in Uttarakhand will heave a sigh of relief following the directions of the high court of Uttarakhand regarding their regular duty hours. The high court has directed that police personnel should not be made to work for more than eight hours as part of their routine duty.
According to the case details, Haridwar resident and advocate Arun Bhaduriya had filed a public interest litigation in the high court stating that police personnel were being made to be on duty for 10 to 15 hours daily which was creating difficulties for them. The petitioner had requested that proper directions be issued to the State Government in this regard. The high court division bench of justice Rajiv Sharma and justice Sharad Kumar Sharma delivered its order on Tuesday and disposed of the petition.
The high court directed that as per the recommendation of the State police reforms commission, a corpus fund for police welfare should be created in three months. Further, work should be undertaken on housing scheme to improve residential facilities for the police. Necessary amendments should be made in the police rules and manuals to provide three promotions to every police personnel during service tenure. The court also directed the State authorities to consider cases of leave in a lenient manner, to form a special selection commission for filling the vacancies in police department and to facilitate housing colony with gymnasium and swimming pool. According to advocate Shakti Singh, the State Government is bound to follow the orders of the high court.