India police launches blockchain-based complaint portal on Polygon

The Indian police unit in Firozabad city in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh has launched an online complaint portal powered by Ethereum scaler Polygon.

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Fast facts

• The pilot portal, policecomplaintonblockchain.in, leverages blockchain technology’s immutability, which means complaints cannot be tampered with or deleted by either the police department or the complainant. 

• “This was necessary for transparency,” Ashish Tiwari, a senior superintendent of police (SSP) of Firozabad Police, said in a Twitter post. 

• Grievances can be filed from any location and will be forwarded to the relevant police jurisdictions, according to the portal’s web page. 

• “We grow up hearing about so many such cases wherein due to some corruption in a local police department, victims (mostly of rapes) are not even able to register complaint or compliants being manipulated,” Polygon cofounder Sandeep Nailwal said. 

• The country’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman expects blockchain use in India to rise by about 46% in the next few years. 

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