Thursday, December 29, 2016

Book Review [146] : Jharokhe Se

'झरोखे से ' श्री अवतार नारायण कौल द्वारा लिखी गयी पुलिस विभाग पर एक प्रासंगिक पुस्तक है।   श्री अवतार नारायण कौल ने उत्तर प्रदेश पुलिस सर्विस सन १९५२ में ज्वाइन की तथा सन १९८६ में  पुलिस महानिरिक्षक के पद से सेवा निर्वित हुए। यह पुस्तक महोदय के संस्मरण के रूप में है।  उन्होंने काफी पुलिस केस हल किये तथा कई कानून व्यवस्था  की समस्यायों का निवारण किया। यह पुस्तक पुलिस अधिकारियों समेत सभी रैंक्स के लिए बेहद उपयोगी साबित हो सकती है बशर्ते किताब में उल्लेखित बिन्दुओं पर गंभीरता से विचार किया जाये।  
He appeared in Civil Services Examination in 1951 but was not given good marks on account of his giving preference to IPS over IAS (as he claims), so he joined UP PPS as DySP in 1952 and completed his training at PTC Moradabad. He later became IPS (after promotion) and retired as IG in 1986. 
Shri Avtar Narayan Kaul had solved main important cases including the gory Kheria murder case of 1957 in which a house servant raped and killed the wife of Squadron leader Kamath posted in Agra. He also killed their daughter and looted properties worth lakhs. He showed astute leadership and fine investigating skills to crack this case that had made entire Indian Military nervous. The leadership he showed when he was posted as SP of Mathura after the brutal murder of previous SP of Mathura by an angry Constable in his office in 1963 was simply exemplary. 
He spent major part of his career in western UP and defused many incidents of communal frenzy. The cutting of telephone wires to allow the passage of Tazia procession in Muradabad in 1968 was his brain child. This defused the volatile situation created by lakhs of Muslims who did not want to bend their Tazias below those wires and had gathered at that place blocking everything. Police Officers need to show such ingenuity more often.

He writes that good relation between SP and DM is an absolute must for proper maintenance of law and order in district. They should give their ego a good toss and work for the district instead of inflating their false egos.
Highly Recommended (8/10)

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