Isn’t there a punishment for police chiefs for assaulting the HNDA students?

Nov 28, 2015

During the investigation conducted by the police commission regarding the abusive assault made by the police to the HNDA students last 29th it was confirmed that the police has exceeded its limit and indulged in controlling the protest carried out by the HNDA students who were protesting to get an equal degree standard for their higher national accounting diploma course. However the police commission has recommended taking disciplinary action only against the lower rank officers leaving the higher ranking officials who gave the orders. The police commission has failed or deliberately ignored to recommend disciplinary actions against the senior officers ranging from police inspectors to the DIG position who conducted this operation last 29th.

Junior officers in the police are often used as a watch dog to attack and assault the public for political influence and in many cases the senior officers are left free unpunished. Lower ranking officers are mostly vulnerable for such disciplinary actions leaving the higher officials but sometimes even that would not happen leaving all free. Due to the inability, unwillingness and the idiotic attitude of the decision makers failing to take prompt action this incident would further harm the reputation of our country which is already alleged for many human rights violation by the international community.

Although the human rights commission confirmed in its report that the former government deployed the army to control a similar incident in Rathupaswala water problem where the army exceeded its limits and attacked the public causing three deaths where nobody was arrested so far and nobody confirmed who gave orders to deploy the army.

However the uniformed lower ranking haughty officers who act on behalf of their commanders also should learn a lesson from this