In the report on the functioning of Indian police, the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) claimed that only people with powerful connections can be confident of getting police assistance in the present system.
“Decades of partisan policing – politically motivated refusal to register complaints, arbitrary detention, and torture and killings sometimes perpetrated by police at the behest of national and state politicians – have resulted in an unprecedented level of public distrust and fear of police,” it claimed.
Active in more than 80 countries, Human Rights Watch monitors rights violations and issues detailed reports.
Distrust, fear among public about police: HRW