With Uttar Pradesh seeing a high rate of crime against people belonging to the SC/ST community, the state government is mulling a proposal to set up separate police stations to deal with such cases.
Such police stations already exist in Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh, official sources said, adding that UP government plans to set up at least one such police station in every district.
Sources in the state police headquarters said in the first phase, such police stations will be set up in major cities and, thereafter, in the rest of the state.
“The police stations will come up under a scheme in which the Centre and the state will bear the expenditure for setting up of such units,” said a senior officer in the social welfare department. Once the blueprint is ready, it will be forwarded to the Principal Secretary (Home) for formal clearance and the notification of the police stations.