PATNA: Expressing concern over the increasing acquittals of offenders due to "weak and fallible evidence collected by the police", Patna high court on Thursday directed the top brass of the Bihar Police, prosecution and other departments to convene a high-level meeting to impart specialised legal and scientific trainings to the cops to improvise investigation methods in the state.
The division bench of justice Ashwani Kumar Singh and justice Shailendra Singh, while hearing a PIL filed by advocate Om Prakash Kumar, requested advocate general (AG) Lalit Kishore to talk to the home secretary, director general of Police (DGP), director of prosecution, chief of state crime record bureau and other top officers of various wings of Bihar police, for holding a meeting on urgent note in order to chalk out the training programmes and schedules, and submit a report on this in three weeks.
The division bench has asked the DGP and director general or any other senior training officer of Bihar Police Training Academy at Rajgir, to be present on the next date of hearing in the matter on September 5.
