<div><font color="Navy">Ministers on leave, police fails to solve murder cases
Monday, 20 February 2012 22:49 Alok Singh | Chandigarh
Paralysed bureaucracy, deteriorating law and order and sluggish investigations have become the order of the day in Punjab, still under the model code of conduct.
Three high-profile brutal killings of serving and retired Government officials have shown glaring loopholes in running the administration when the State is headless and waiting for the poll results.
Three different high-profile murders, including that of a DSP, shook the State within two weeks of polling on January 30. Ironically, the police have failed to make any headway in these cases. The cops are on their toes and clueless, the ruling party leaders are missing and there seems to be no accountability.
Just after the day of polling, Ministers and senior leaders went on leave, some to foreign destinations, leaving the State in the lurch. State Home Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, head of the police force, too is away. In the meantime, the State
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Monday, 20 February 2012 22:49 Alok Singh | Chandigarh
Paralysed bureaucracy, deteriorating law and order and sluggish investigations have become the order of the day in Punjab, still under the model code of conduct.
Three high-profile brutal killings of serving and retired Government officials have shown glaring loopholes in running the administration when the State is headless and waiting for the poll results.
Three different high-profile murders, including that of a DSP, shook the State within two weeks of polling on January 30. Ironically, the police have failed to make any headway in these cases. The cops are on their toes and clueless, the ruling party leaders are missing and there seems to be no accountability.
Just after the day of polling, Ministers and senior leaders went on leave, some to foreign destinations, leaving the State in the lurch. State Home Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal, head of the police force, too is away. In the meantime, the State
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