Trust the Delhi Police to provide you with some unintentional mirth and comic relief at the most inopportune of times, well the Delhi Police or more specifically the East District police authorities certainly did not disappoint and provided all this and more with their colossal list of do's and dont's for home makers and other young women who go to school and college.........
The best part of it all is the fact that the Delhi Police Headquarters are completely in the dark and blissfully unaware of this latest gaffe and colossal list that first made a surreptitious appearance on the walls of the Lady Shriram and other such notable colleges over the last couple of days or so.........
Additional Commissioner of Police Tejinder Luthra was initially flummoxed, flabbergasted and at a conspicuous loss of words when intensely questioned by NDTV's Nidhi Razdan about the existence and widespread circulation of the same; he at first out rightly denied the existence of any such circular or flier and finally promised to look into the same and withdraw it if required after a departmental enquiry pertaining to it's point of origin..........
Well, the naysayers and self styled wise men and women who have been having a field day castigating the Delhi Police and questioning it's professionalism and investigation techniques are indeed exploding with uncontrolled mirth and falling over themselves in their glee at being accorded yet another golden opportunity to question the professionalism of the Delhi Police and pat themselves on the back for their wisdom, sagacity and deep insights into the minds of the Delhi Police higher ups........
No matter however well intentioned the list of do's and dont's that contains such gems like: young women should go straight home after school and college, avoid deserted and poorly lit roads, only board buses that are fairly well inhabited, carry their mobile phones with them at all times, raise a hue and cry and scream themselves hoarse at the merest hint of trouble and signs of a stalker, keep their families and friends informed about their whereabouts at all times and so on and so forth only seems to highlight the highly condescending and patronising attitude that the Delhi Police so brazenly displays towards Delhi's fairer sex that makes up for 50% of it's population......
One really wonders why the Delhi Police higher ups did not display the same alacrity with regard to setting it's own house in order, meting out exemplary punishment to all those policemen and officers who were on duty on the routes taken by the now infamous bus on the fateful night of December 16,2012 or then initiate long over due measures to sensitise it's loutish and boorish officers towards the needs and concerns of the fairer sex and addressing the same in a sympathetic and humane manner..........
Or for that matter, why didn't the Delhi Police conjure up a similar list for the menfolk who brazenly go around raping, molesting and groping the women in Delhi almost as if it was their god given right, educate them on the consequences of their misplaced bravado and totally out of date ideas of male machismo and last but not the least put the fear of god into their minds and souls by roughing up a few wannabe lotharios and subjecting them to the third degree methods that they seem to specialise in........
Was the release of the ill advised list of do's and dont's simply a misplaced attempt at proving or underlining the fact that the Delhi Police is indeed doing something about making Delhi's streets safer and more secure for it's womenfolk or then simply an attempt to foist off it's onerous responsibilities onto the shoulders of Delhi's unsuspecting womenfolk?? well every concerned and well meaning Indian citizen is waiting for an answer from Messrs Luthra and company.......
Come on Messrs Neeraj Kumar, Tejinder Luthra and co. you surely can do better, pull up your socks and start concentrating your concerted energies on making the national capital the safest place in India if not the entire world for it's womenfolk, conjure up and initiate gender sensitive training and orientation programmes for the lakhs of policemen that make up your force and thereby prove that the Delhi Police is definitely numero uno in it's designated sphere............
The best part of it all is the fact that the Delhi Police Headquarters are completely in the dark and blissfully unaware of this latest gaffe and colossal list that first made a surreptitious appearance on the walls of the Lady Shriram and other such notable colleges over the last couple of days or so.........
Additional Commissioner of Police Tejinder Luthra was initially flummoxed, flabbergasted and at a conspicuous loss of words when intensely questioned by NDTV's Nidhi Razdan about the existence and widespread circulation of the same; he at first out rightly denied the existence of any such circular or flier and finally promised to look into the same and withdraw it if required after a departmental enquiry pertaining to it's point of origin..........
Well, the naysayers and self styled wise men and women who have been having a field day castigating the Delhi Police and questioning it's professionalism and investigation techniques are indeed exploding with uncontrolled mirth and falling over themselves in their glee at being accorded yet another golden opportunity to question the professionalism of the Delhi Police and pat themselves on the back for their wisdom, sagacity and deep insights into the minds of the Delhi Police higher ups........
No matter however well intentioned the list of do's and dont's that contains such gems like: young women should go straight home after school and college, avoid deserted and poorly lit roads, only board buses that are fairly well inhabited, carry their mobile phones with them at all times, raise a hue and cry and scream themselves hoarse at the merest hint of trouble and signs of a stalker, keep their families and friends informed about their whereabouts at all times and so on and so forth only seems to highlight the highly condescending and patronising attitude that the Delhi Police so brazenly displays towards Delhi's fairer sex that makes up for 50% of it's population......
One really wonders why the Delhi Police higher ups did not display the same alacrity with regard to setting it's own house in order, meting out exemplary punishment to all those policemen and officers who were on duty on the routes taken by the now infamous bus on the fateful night of December 16,2012 or then initiate long over due measures to sensitise it's loutish and boorish officers towards the needs and concerns of the fairer sex and addressing the same in a sympathetic and humane manner..........
Or for that matter, why didn't the Delhi Police conjure up a similar list for the menfolk who brazenly go around raping, molesting and groping the women in Delhi almost as if it was their god given right, educate them on the consequences of their misplaced bravado and totally out of date ideas of male machismo and last but not the least put the fear of god into their minds and souls by roughing up a few wannabe lotharios and subjecting them to the third degree methods that they seem to specialise in........
Was the release of the ill advised list of do's and dont's simply a misplaced attempt at proving or underlining the fact that the Delhi Police is indeed doing something about making Delhi's streets safer and more secure for it's womenfolk or then simply an attempt to foist off it's onerous responsibilities onto the shoulders of Delhi's unsuspecting womenfolk?? well every concerned and well meaning Indian citizen is waiting for an answer from Messrs Luthra and company.......
Come on Messrs Neeraj Kumar, Tejinder Luthra and co. you surely can do better, pull up your socks and start concentrating your concerted energies on making the national capital the safest place in India if not the entire world for it's womenfolk, conjure up and initiate gender sensitive training and orientation programmes for the lakhs of policemen that make up your force and thereby prove that the Delhi Police is definitely numero uno in it's designated sphere............
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