<p>A policeman should be suspended immediately if he refuses to register a complaint, Union Home Secretary R K Singh has suggested.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"There should not be any hesitation in suspending any policeman who refuses to register a complaint. That is in law. Not registering any complaint is violation of law," he said.<br /><br />According to Singh, people face ordeal in every step while going to a police station for registering any case as well as trying to know the status of their complaint.<br /><br />"That has to be changed. For the women, weaker sections or the poor, visiting a police station itself is an ordeal. To know the status of any compliant, without taking the local MLA along, it is impossible," he said.<br /><br />The home secretary said an atmosphere should be created where women and weaker sections of the society get the ability to register a complaint without facing difficulty.<br /><br />He said in cases like molestation, the very thought of going through the ordeal to brief the policemen about the incident dissuade many to go to a police station and that has to be changed.<br /><br />"It is high time, as a country we have to woke up. Our inability to protect women and weaker sections of the society is a huge, huge problem," he told the country's top police brass at a conference here on Friday.<br /><br />The conference was convened in the wake of the brutal gang-rape and assault of a 23-year-old girl in Delhi. The girl died in a hospital in Singapore on December 29</p>
<p>A policeman should be suspended immediately if he refuses to register a complaint, Union Home Secretary R K Singh has suggested.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"There should not be any hesitation in suspending any policeman who refuses to register a complaint. That is in law. Not registering any complaint is violation of law," he said.<br /><br />According to Singh, people face ordeal in every step while going to a police station for registering any case as well as trying to know the status of their complaint.<br /><br />"That has to be changed. For the women, weaker sections or the poor, visiting a police station itself is an ordeal. To know the status of any compliant, without taking the local MLA along, it is impossible," he said.<br /><br />The home secretary said an atmosphere should be created where women and weaker sections of the society get the ability to register a complaint without facing difficulty.<br /><br />He said in cases like molestation, the very thought of going through the ordeal to brief the policemen about the incident dissuade many to go to a police station and that has to be changed.<br /><br />"It is high time, as a country we have to woke up. Our inability to protect women and weaker sections of the society is a huge, huge problem," he told the country's top police brass at a conference here on Friday.<br /><br />The conference was convened in the wake of the brutal gang-rape and assault of a 23-year-old girl in Delhi. The girl died in a hospital in Singapore on December 29</p>