Uttarakhand’s income police system | The policing hole
A slender, slippery path climbs steeply for 100 metres earlier than you attain the distant chowki in Jakhnikhal tehsil of Pauri Garhwal district. The outpost is a rundown two-storeyed construction, its central corridor serving as a shared workplace for a number of patwaris—income sub-inspectors tasked with policing dozens of villages between them. A rusted lockup…