Plea on SHOs working hours: HC seeks report from police

The Delhi High Court today asked the city government to file a fresh affidavit on a PIL seeking withdrawal of police circulars which asks SHOs to be on duty 24 hours without any leave and does not allow them to go home unless they have permission from their seniors.
"Is it correct to work for 24X7? How will they give service," a bench of acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed and Justice Vibhu Bakhru said and asked Delhi government's standing counsel to relook at the issue and then file a more comprehensive status report on it within six weeks.
The bench was hearing a PIL filed by an advocate A K Biswas seeking withdrawal of police circulars relating to alleged inhuman working conditions of SHOs claiming people of Delhi would suffer by way of "degraded and inefficient policing".

The petitioner said that "both the circulars of August 30, 1995 and September 10, 2012 are not in conformity with the Delhi Police Act and Article 21 of the Constitution of India and are also not according to the general conscience of a human being.