Hubballi-Dharwad top cop says dept faring well in solving murder cases

Hubballi: The Hubballi-Dharwad police commissionerate will strictly monitor the new beat system to curb crime of all shades in the twin cities.
Hubballi-Dharwad police is at the receiving end over growing incidents of murder and attempt-to-murder cases. Recent cases of murders, especially the double murder in Keshwapur station limits, have jolted the faith that people have in the police department.
However, police beg to differ on the development.According to them, 16 murder cases were reported in the last 11 months, “but the accused were nabbed within 24 hours of the crime”.
According to the data sourced from the commissionerate, 16 murder cases were reported between September 1, 2019, and August 31, 2020. Of them, 14 cases were solved and 42 accused were arrested in a record time — the average time taken to arrest the accused was less than 24 hours. It was 15.75 days to nab the accused invovled in murders reported between September 2018 and August 31, 2019. In that period, 12 murder cases were reported, and 34 accused were arrested.
They had taken only 4.11 days to arrest the culprits in 26 murder cases reported between September 1, 2017, and August 31, 2018. By the end of August this year, police solved three cases registered in the previous years.
Police commissioner R Dileep said the police are trying their best to check the crime rate, and that murders are happening despite the best measures.
“Police have solved the cases in record time. In many cases, the accused were arrested within hours after the incident, be it the murder at Deshpande Nagar near Sri Krishna Kalyan Mantap or the double murder. In ‘Fruit’ Irfan murder case, police did an exemplary work — the accused were arrested from the hotspot zones of Covid cases in Mumbai,” said Dileep.
The commissioner said though the crime-detection rate is high and the time duration of cracking the cases is good, some vested interest are trying to show the department in bad light. “Those who are not able to get their illegal work done are trying to project that the law and order situation is bad,” he said, without naming who the vested interests are.
Dileep said the police unit will work more vigour in the coming days. “The beat system will be strengthened, and I myself will pay surprise visits to the nook and corner of the twin cities to ensure the effectiveness of the beat and the efficiency of police personnel,” he said.