On Saturday, secretary of the state irrigation department Kujendra Doley was granted bail by the Gauhati high court after police failed to submit charge sheet against him before the court.
The sleuths of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption of Assam had arrested Doley from his office in Dispur Janata Bhawan after taking bribe from a contractor on Mar 28 last.
Not only Kujendra Doley, 10 accused persons including three Assam Civil Service (ACS) officials, former members of Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) had granted bail by the Gauhati high court in connection with the cash-for-job scam of APSC, after Assam police failed to submit charge sheet against them.
According to the reports, for negligence of Assam police, over two dozen accused persons of several major corruption related cases were granted bail by the court in past two months.
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data revealed that, the Assam police had failed to submit charge sheet in most of registered cases.
The charge sheeting rate in Assam is only 47 per cent and it is second lowest rate in the country.
The NCRB data of 2015 said that, while all India rate is recorded by 77.7 per cent, the Assam police had submitted charge sheets of only 47 per cent cases.
According to the NCRB data, the charge sheeting rate in Kerala is recorded by 97.8 per cent, 93.3 per cent in Madhya Pradesh, 91.9 per cent in Andhra Pradesh.
Among the north eastern states, highest rate is recorded in Mizoram by 91 per cent, 88 per cent in Tripura, 68.2 per cent in Sikkim, 64.5 per cent in Nagaland, 57.4 per cent in Meghalaya, 55.7 per cent in Arunachal Pradesh and 13.5 per cent in Manipur (lowest rate in the country).
According to the state home department, a total of 1,02,407 cases were registered in different crime heads in the state in 2016, but police had submit charge sheet of only 47 per cent cases.
On the other hand, a top source of state home department said that, Assam police has faced problems with shortage of man power.
“Over 12000 posts in Assam police are still vacant and for this, a single officer has to handle few cases and difficulties arise in many occasions,” the top source said.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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