The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has pulled up the representative of the additional chief secretary, Home Department, for “ignorance” in the matter concerning the Tulinj police station. The panel, which had taken suo motu note of mid-day’s April 3 report, heard the matter on Monday. The police station in Nalasopara, built on a nullah, floods every monsoon and is cause for traffic snarls in the area, as highlighted by mid-day last month.

“Reporter Mr Diwakar Sharma reported about apathy and lethargic attitude on the part of the stakeholder department viz. Home Department and Public Works Department in Mantralaya, Mumbai for establishing a new police station at Tulinj which for years has been dealing with a stinking nullah flowing underneath,” reads the document of the SHRC.