Meet on Conviction Rate held

PUDUCHERRY: Top officials of the North, South and Rural police regions met with advocates in Puducherry on Saturday and discussed ways to increase conviction rates in cases filed in the courts.The meeting had been called as the rate of convictions in the cases filed has gone down considerably in recent times. Advocates suggested the appointment of SIs in each region to exclusively handle cases filed in the courts in order to ensure conviction.Senior Superintendent of Police (Law and order) V J Chandran, Deputy Director (prosecution) D Rudrakumar, Public Prosecutor Shanmugham, Sps N T Sivadasan, A Nandagopal and Deivasigamani participated in the meet