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POTO to be fully operational in UP within next 10 days
The Uttar Pradesh government is gearing up to make the controversial Prevention Of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO) fully operational in the state within next 10 days, a top official said on Thursday.
The Uttar Pradesh government is gearing up to make the controversial Prevention Of Terrorism Ordinance (POTO) fully operational in the state within next 10 days, a top official said on Thursday.
All exercises relating to POTO like appointment of designated authority and competent authority, setting up of special courts and constituting the review committee will be completed in next ten days, principal secretary (home) Naresh Dayal told newsmen.
He said the officers being appointed as designated authority and the competent authority would not be below the rank of secretary while the chairman of the review committee would be a sitting or a retired judge of the High Court. Dayal said to start with, the government planned to establish about seven to eight special courts in different parts of the state to try offences chargeable under POTO.
The investigating officers would not be below the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police, he said. Though the POTO was yet to become fully operational in the state, suspected cases could be registered at the police stations and pursued later in the light of POTO provisions, he said, adding that the district magistrates and police chiefs were being communicated about the provisions of the ordinance.
Bureau Report
He said the officers being appointed as designated authority and the competent authority would not be below the rank of secretary while the chairman of the review committee would be a sitting or a retired judge of the High Court. Dayal said to start with, the government planned to establish about seven to eight special courts in different parts of the state to try offences chargeable under POTO.
The investigating officers would not be below the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police, he said. Though the POTO was yet to become fully operational in the state, suspected cases could be registered at the police stations and pursued later in the light of POTO provisions, he said, adding that the district magistrates and police chiefs were being communicated about the provisions of the ordinance.
Bureau Report