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18,000 Bihar policemen to cease work

Our Correspondent in Patna

Eighteen thousands inspectors, sub-inspectors and assistant sub-inspectors of Bihar police will cease work for a week from midnight on Sunday as the talks, on their demands, with the chief secretary and director general of police had failed to elicit any positive result.

Talking to rediff.com after the talks on Sunday morning, general secretary of the Bihar Police Association K K Jha said that after hearing their 12-point demand, the chief secretary asked them to come again at 1800 hours (IST) for further talks. He wanted to discuss the demands with the chief minister.

But Jha told the chief secretary that the BPA was not interested in any further talks and that he wanted that the government issue a notification accepting all their demands.

The demands include payment of Rs 250,000 as compensation to all the policemen killed in encounters with extremists, revoking the order calling for withdrawal of Rs 500 as vehicle allowance, implementation of need-based promotion and payment of one month's extra salary.

Other demands are a thorough probe into the misappropriation of funds meant for the modernisation of the police force and arming them with sophisticated weapons, bullet proof jackets, hand grenades, metal detectors etc.

BPA leaders said that if the demands were not conceded within the next seven days, they would chalk out the future course of action at a general body meeting of the BPA on July 30.

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