Mixed response to Chandigarh’s public grievances redressal camp

Officials said that a total of 21 complainants attended the camp. “The facts of 36 complaints lying with the Sector 11 police station were discussed with the complainants. Nine complaints were disposed of, while six were recommended for registration of cases,” police said.

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According to the police, a total of four complaints were pending in the Crime Branch, out of which one has been recommended for the registration of a case.

At the camp, while many of the residents were satisfied with the response of the police, there were others who expressed dissatisfaction.

The family members of Mahesh Kumar, a resident of Dhanas who met with an accident in Milk Colony Chowk last week, had said that the police were not registering a case against a policeman who was riding the motorcycle that had hit Kumar, injuring him severely.

On Friday, Kumar arrived at the camp along with his wife and friend Ramakant Prasad. “Earlier, the police were not registering a case against the policeman. But today, a case was registered on the instructions of the SSP,” said Prasad.

Susheela, a resident of Sector 25, came with a complaint that her husband who had married someone else, had been threatening and harassing her. After attending the camp, she told Chandigarh Newsline that she wasn’t satisfied with the services of the police.

“The SSP at the camp asked the police officials of the Sector 9 police post to call my husband and solve the matter. I was expecting that that police would call my husband today and arrest him. But they didn’t do anything,” she said.