STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: In order to improve the criminal justice system in Assam, the Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court, Sandeep Mehta, emphasized the importance of coining a plan to train the stakeholders of the Criminal Justice Delivery System. A workshop based on the improvement of the criminal justice system was inaugurated by the Chief Justice at Assam Administrative Staff College, Khanapara, on Tuesday. The workshop was inaugurated in the presence of the DGP of Assam, the Special DGP (HQ), the Advocate General of Assam, the IGP (CID), and other dignitaries.
In his deliberation, the Chief Justice spoke about coining a plan to train the stakeholders of the Criminal Justice Delivery System by the domain experts to bring about improvements, and the domain experts, Sawai Singh Godara, IPS (Retd.), P.V. Verma, Retd. Dy Director Prosecution, and V.N. Mathur, Retd. Director FSL, from Rajasthan, who are imparting trainings in these workshops, whose vast knowledge and experience will benefit the participants. The Chief Justice in his deliberations expressed that it is essential that logical conclusion must be reached while investigating cases and stressed the need to follow the correct procedure of search and seizure.
Three more workshops of similar nature are scheduled at Dergaon, Bongaigaon, and Silchar to be attended by the investigators, the public prosecutors, and the judiciary.
In his welcome address, state DGP G P Singh expressed his gratitude to the Chief Justice for paving the way for the improvement of the criminal justice system. He further commented in his address that the Assam Police will take all means to achieve conviction rates on a par with the national average.
The Advocate General of Assam, Devojit Saikia, stressed the need for loopholes in investigations and prosecutions to be plugged so that a higher conviction rate can be achieved. The Special D.G.P., Assam, Police, Harmeet Singh, IPS, offered the vote of thanks in the inaugural session. He offered the gratitude of the Assam Police to the Chief Justice for showing the path of improvement in investigation and for showing empathy to the police.
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