Moots effective security arrangements
A day after police administration took steps to increase vigil on the Jamshedpur Civil Court premises, the District Judge, Anand Vijay Singh, held a meeting with the East Singhbbhum deputy commissioner, senior SP and functionaries of Jamshedpur Bar Association functionaries at the chamber of district judge on Tuesday.
Soon after the meeting, the senior SP, Amol V Homkar said the meeting was to ensure a strict security arrangement for the judicial staff, especially the judges and judicial magistrate as well as the lawyers fraternity.
“We reviewed the security arrangements. The district judge Singh and the deputy commissioner Amitabh Kaushal however expressed need for a security system that is sustainable and effective in nature,” said Homkar.
The senior SP said that several suggestion and ideas on how to make the court campus people-friendly emerged out of the meeting.
“We have decided that the deployment of additional policemen will continue along with frisking the visitors and checking of their belongings at the entrance. For the lawyer fraternity and the judicial staff we have decided to introduce issuing entry-pass to them so that they will not have to undergo frisking or checking again and again,” said Homkar.
He went on to inform that additional CCTV cameras will be installed on the court premises and also civil court complex so as to cover all the strategic locations.
This apart, arrangement for installing door framed metal detectors will also be installed at the entrance of the boundary wall of the court premises. The number of policemen has been increased from 20 to 50 who will be keeping a strict vigil on the visitors to the court premises, especially the three-stroeyed court complex.
The senior SP said that parking of vehicles is also a major problem that causes security concern on the court premises.
Significantly, the senior SP informed that he would recommend for sending the gangster Akhilesh Singh to Birsa Munda Central Jail in Ranchi and would also recommend for his trial in the court through video-conferencing.
The premises of Jamshedpur court turned into a battlefield as one of the three assailants opened fire at fugitive and noted criminal Akhilesh Singh soon he stepped into to appear in the court on Saturday morning. Though the fugitive miraculously escaped unhurt however his supporters gathered at the court premises caught hold of the assailants and assaulted them badly.
Son of Chandragupt Singh, general secretary of Jharkhand Police Association, Akhilesh set up a network extortionists and shooters. The 34-year-old don stepped into the crime world by abducting the mobil merchant Om Prakash Kabra on July 21, 2001.