India, I think, is one of the very few countries in the world where people refrain from taking police help. What might be the reasons? Well, there are plenty. I, personally, consider them the second most corrupt department (first place goes to politicians). They intend to favor the power (read rich). They harass people and try to keep them scared because this is why, they believe, they are given that Khaki uniform. In fact, people feel reluctant to go to the police for petty crimes (and sometimes for bigger crimes as well) because they know that instead of helping them, policemen will try to make the most out of the situation and they can fall prey for this opportunity for them. They hardly pay for any utilization of public transport (I have witnessed it once). Show them the right amount of money and they are ready to help convert a victim into a criminal and vice-versa. And they can even paralyze your mental stability to such an extent that you are forced to take the extreme step of ending your own life; and this is what I recently read in one of the newspapers (Times of India, June 11, 2008, Page 15).
This is a case of extreme perversion, coercion and negligence by the Chandigarh (Haryana) police. A married woman, Sarita is raped by two police constables. Now, when she goes to register an FIR against those two policemen, they threaten her of extremely bad repercussions. But she is determined to fight for her rights and goes to a person above at hierarchy. Again, policemen try to coerce her against filing an FIR by booking her husband in a motorcycle theft. And after dragging the case for around two months, Sarita (mother of two innocent little girls) finally ends her life by committing suicide, while her husband is still in jail for allegedly stealing a motorcycle.
Now, do you feel proud calling yourself an Indian?? Well, I don’t. Is this what we dream of India to be, where, the department that has to be most trusted, is the most distrusted one, where people feel scared of their own protectors?
Partially, we are also responsible for her death. Why? Because we refrain from raising our voice when a person next door is getting bullied by the police or criminals. And we forget that we can be their next victim.
This is a case of extreme perversion, coercion and negligence by the Chandigarh (Haryana) police. A married woman, Sarita is raped by two police constables. Now, when she goes to register an FIR against those two policemen, they threaten her of extremely bad repercussions. But she is determined to fight for her rights and goes to a person above at hierarchy. Again, policemen try to coerce her against filing an FIR by booking her husband in a motorcycle theft. And after dragging the case for around two months, Sarita (mother of two innocent little girls) finally ends her life by committing suicide, while her husband is still in jail for allegedly stealing a motorcycle.
Now, do you feel proud calling yourself an Indian?? Well, I don’t. Is this what we dream of India to be, where, the department that has to be most trusted, is the most distrusted one, where people feel scared of their own protectors?
Partially, we are also responsible for her death. Why? Because we refrain from raising our voice when a person next door is getting bullied by the police or criminals. And we forget that we can be their next victim.
Wake up people!!
2 comments:
I completely agree on your comments on police image in public mind.
No doubt people avoid going to police for most of the matter because of their unfriendly and non cooperative nature. Many times Police has been found involved in crimes by making wrong use of their powers. But still I don't think we should not feel proud saying our self Indians. These kinds of problems are not just in India but also exist in well developed countries like US and UK.
The question is why people with power break law? What make them feel themselves above law? How all these things can be improved? I think Govt. should make laws people friendly and strict for people with powers.
Whatever you wrote is correct and true in every manner and also in tandem with contemporary writing styles. Its contentful. But....... firstly the thought is too common. Anybody will have two or three stories to tell about such incidents and will finally reach on exactly same conclusions as your's. But i feel writing is different than talking. When something is written, it becomes destined to be read by a number of people. That is why the important thing is that you should use words very judiciously in such sentimental articles, as one inappropriate word can ignite fire in somebody's mind. Then you can only pray that the fire is ignited inly in some individual's mind not a group.
But last but not the least - You know how to make impact with a pen... sorry keyboard.
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