Haridwar SSP orders police personnel to help in cremation services as punishment for negligence
Monday, 14 November 2022 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The senior superintendent of police (SSP) of Haridwar, Ajai Singh has ordered the station house officer (SHO) of Gangnahar police station and two other police personnel to help out in carrying out in cremation services for two days at the cremation Ghats as a punishment in view of their negligence in identifying an unknown dead body.
The police informed that the SSP gave this ‘punishment’ regarding the case when an unknown man died in a train accident in Roorkee on October 23 but the police station in-charge allegedly delayed the procedure of filing a missing person report and the man was cremated as an unknown person. The man was later identified as Harish Chandna, a local of Roorkee but the SSP directed the Haridwar superintendent of police (rural) Swapna Kishore Singh to investigate the matter.
The SP found out in his investigation that there was a lack of coordination among the police personnel regarding the incident and the police did not make enough efforts to identify the body on time. The police said that as per the SP’s report, the man was cremated as an unidentified body due to inadvertent negligence by the SHO.
Considering this, SSP Ajai Singh directed the SHO and two constables to help out in the cremation of the dead bodies arriving at Khadkhadi Ghat, Sati Ghat and Chandighat for eight hours on Monday and Tuesday.
Singh said that he gave this punishment to police personnel concerned in order to make them understand their mistakes and repent for their inadvertent negligence. The police should understand the social arrangements and their underlying sentiments for a person and not forget them while they carry out their duties to serve the public. This punishment will probably help the personnel to understand it, added Singh.
