State rescinds 1994 GO on FoP
The State Home Department, acting upon the orders of the current DGP JK Tripathy, on Wednesday, rescinded the GO issued in the year 1994 giving permission to ‘’Friends of Police’’ (FoP) to function throughout Tamil Nadu.
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Senior police officers, however, refused to term it as a ban on FoP, but clarified that the government is withdrawing its support to the movement which had joint governmental organisation status since 1994. The then Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, impressed by the concept ideated by IPS officer Prateep V Philip, through a GO, had sanctioned permission to set up the FoP across the state. The FoP’s role in the Sathankulam custodial deaths is being probed as it was alleged that a few FoP volunteers were involved in the alleged torture of father and son duo Jayaraj and Bennix, who died later.
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