3,229 cases pending for over year in Haryana, says Anil Vij

Haryana's home minister has ordered officers to clarify why investigations in first information reports have been pending for over a year. Anil Vij said strict action would be taken against those who failed to give a satisfactory reply. Over 3,000 cases were found to be pending for more than a year. Vij has also ordered IT experts to be deployed to 29 cyber police stations in the state to prevent cybercrime, and for officers to use artificial intelligence techniques to tackle it.

Haryana home minister Anil Vij on Monday directed police officers to seek clarification from officials who have kept investigations in first information reports pending for over a year. The minister said strict action will be taken against those officers who failed to give a satisfactory reply.

Haryana home minister Anil Vij (File photo)

Vij who presided over a review meeting regarding law and order with senior officers of the police department said 3,229 cases were pending in the state for more than a year. He said 77 cases in Ambala, 45 in Bhiwani, 13 in Charkhi-Dadri, 140 in Faridabad, 54 in Fatehabad, one in GRP Ambala Cantt, 981 in Gurugram, 27 in Hansi, 106 in Hisar, 132 in Jhajjar, 62 in Jind, 39 in Kaithal, 100 in Karnal, 94 in Kurukshetra, 38 in Mahendragarh, 165 in Nuh, 292 in Palwal, 114 in Panchkula, 37 in Panipat, 98 in Rewari, 151 in Rohtak, 177 in Sirsa, 83 in Sonepat and 203 in Yamunanagar cases were pending for more than a year. The minister said police should prepare a list of persons against whom more than 10 criminal cases were registered. He said special inquiry teams constituted to deal with cases of immigration frauds have received 332 pending cases from the previous SIT, while 68 cases were newly registered.