DCP rights a wrong

By Marri Ramu

HYDERABAD, AUGUST 13. He is physically weak. And the 55 years of age has thrust upon Shameem Ali blindness. He can barely walk. But in the eyes of Chikkadpally police he is a criminal to reckon with. Probably, that is why the City Dossier Criminal(CDC) sheet opened on Shameem Ali some 15 years ago by them was being continued.

It appears that the CDC sheet on Shameem would have been continued for another 10 or 20 years. He would have received the routine summon calls and made to present himself before the Station House Officer with agony and pain. As per the records, the CDC sheet on Shameem was opened after his conviction in 1984 in two separate theft cases of a bicycle and scooter tyre.

But Mr. C.V. Anand, Deputy Commissioner of Police, East Zone, three days ago, relieved Shameem Ali of his `attachment with the police' with one pen stroke. The DCP stumbled across the case when he was going through a routine check-up of the crime records in the Chikkadpally police station. More than the records, the disabled status of Shameem shocked the officer when he saw the old man in flesh and blood.

Shameem's was not the only such case. Several such "unnecessary" sheets on CDCs and rowdies were found by the DCP in the Chikkadpally division. The case of Suri Ram (62) suffering from the infirmities of old age was a classic one. A CDC sheet was opened on him in early 80s and was still being continued without valid reasons. Mr. Anand ordered for removal of the sheets on them with immediate effect.

A close examination of the CDC and rowdy sheets, brought to the fore many cases in which sheets were opened on persons who were involved in a single offence and never involved in any other crime. Immediately, a review of the sheets on CDCs and rowdies under the limits of Musheerabad, Chikkadpally and Narayanaguda police stations was taken up by the DCP. After personally speaking to the listed criminals and rowdies, Mr. Anand directed that 11 out of the 28 rowdy sheets and 13 out of the 23 CDC sheets be removed immediately.

However, the DCP expressed surprise over the absence of history sheets in all the three police stations that were reviewed. "Suspect sheets have to be maintained in a huge city like this without which monitoring and preventing crime is difficult. I am finding out where and what went wrong with our officials in this direction", he said.

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