The Lead: Issues surrounding police reforms in India

In this episode of The Lead, Ramnivas Gurjar, a research scholar at the Centre for the study of law and governance at JNU, speaks about the issues surrounding police reforms in the country.

Ahmed Shariff: Hi, this is Ahmed Shariff and welcome to The Lead by DH Radio. Today we will talk about police reforms. To talk about that we are joined by Ramnivas Gurjar, who is a research scholar at the Centre for the study of law and governance at JNU. Ramnivas is currently pursuing his research on the role of the police in times of majoritarian politics.

Hi Ram and welcome to DH Radio.

Ramnivas Gurjar: Hi.

Ahmed: Could you explain the police structure in the country before we speak about the reforms.

Ramnivas: First we have to look into the history of how this agency was established. This agency was established in colonial times and its structures was even in the Mughul period too. It was consolidated in colonial times. The purpose of establishing this is clear that the colonial masters wanted to simply control the subjects...

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