In what must indeed sound as sweet music to the ears of Delhi's scores of women in particular and much vilified and harangued common man on the street in general, the Supreme Court just a short while back asked both the centre and the states to critically examine the number of police personnel deployed in the name of VIP security and free or redeploy a significant majority of these very same personnel towards the more significant and important cause of providing the women and the children out there with a sense of security and safety.........
Taking serious offence to the Delhi police's pronounced inability to learn lessons from either the horrific events that unfolded on the fateful night of December 16,2002 or the spate of rapes and sexual assaults that followed in the wake of this incident the Supreme court judges asked the Delhi Police authorities to name a single judge who had asked for a massive security deployment and openly wondered why precious resources were being squandered away in the name of such fruitless deployment when there was a crying need to secure the safety and security of the women and children on the street...........
Curtly asking all concerned authorities to file due relies before it on or before February 11, the Supreme Court clearly remarked that any authority that fails to file it's reply before it on the due date will be asked to explain it's failure to do so before it in person on February 16, 2013.........
I would only be fit to recall that this is not the first instance of the Supreme Court haranguing and lambasting the Delhi Police as well as Home Ministry officials in this regard, the Supreme Court had earlier asked the Delhi Police Commissioner pointed questions on why almost 55% of the existing Delhi police personnel were deployed on VIP security when there was an urgent need to ensure the safety and security of Delhi's women?????
On being informed that a sizeable number of these personnel were also deployed outside the official residences of both high court as well as supreme court judges, the Supreme Court had asked why these personnel were deployed without a single judge asking for the same and on receiving a reply to the effect that these personnel enabled the judges and other protectees to faithfully and conscientiously discharge their duties without fear or favour openly rebuked the officer furnishing this reply saying that, "a country whose judges need a massive security deployment to discharge their constitutionally mandated duties can look forward to everything else apart from a bright future"...........
The Supreme Courts caustic remarks and observations are being seen as a fall out of reports in sections of the press about the number of politicians being provided with NSG security cover having gone up exponentially in the last few days and weeks and also in the wake of yet another incident of a foreigner being raped by a party organiser late last night/ early this morning in a posh South Delhi colony.......
Pointed questions were also asked about both the Delhi police as well as the home ministries abject failure to initiate necessary action to fill up the existing vacancies as well as the ushering in the long overdue police reforms that have been debated and discussed time and again over the last decade and a half and more...........
One can only hope and pray that both the Delhi police as well as the other state police forces will at long last understand that their first responsibility lies towards the common man and not their privileged political bosses and start discharging their primary duty of ensuring the safety and security of the Aam Aadmi at long last...........
Taking serious offence to the Delhi police's pronounced inability to learn lessons from either the horrific events that unfolded on the fateful night of December 16,2002 or the spate of rapes and sexual assaults that followed in the wake of this incident the Supreme court judges asked the Delhi Police authorities to name a single judge who had asked for a massive security deployment and openly wondered why precious resources were being squandered away in the name of such fruitless deployment when there was a crying need to secure the safety and security of the women and children on the street...........
Curtly asking all concerned authorities to file due relies before it on or before February 11, the Supreme Court clearly remarked that any authority that fails to file it's reply before it on the due date will be asked to explain it's failure to do so before it in person on February 16, 2013.........
I would only be fit to recall that this is not the first instance of the Supreme Court haranguing and lambasting the Delhi Police as well as Home Ministry officials in this regard, the Supreme Court had earlier asked the Delhi Police Commissioner pointed questions on why almost 55% of the existing Delhi police personnel were deployed on VIP security when there was an urgent need to ensure the safety and security of Delhi's women?????
On being informed that a sizeable number of these personnel were also deployed outside the official residences of both high court as well as supreme court judges, the Supreme Court had asked why these personnel were deployed without a single judge asking for the same and on receiving a reply to the effect that these personnel enabled the judges and other protectees to faithfully and conscientiously discharge their duties without fear or favour openly rebuked the officer furnishing this reply saying that, "a country whose judges need a massive security deployment to discharge their constitutionally mandated duties can look forward to everything else apart from a bright future"...........
The Supreme Courts caustic remarks and observations are being seen as a fall out of reports in sections of the press about the number of politicians being provided with NSG security cover having gone up exponentially in the last few days and weeks and also in the wake of yet another incident of a foreigner being raped by a party organiser late last night/ early this morning in a posh South Delhi colony.......
Pointed questions were also asked about both the Delhi police as well as the home ministries abject failure to initiate necessary action to fill up the existing vacancies as well as the ushering in the long overdue police reforms that have been debated and discussed time and again over the last decade and a half and more...........
One can only hope and pray that both the Delhi police as well as the other state police forces will at long last understand that their first responsibility lies towards the common man and not their privileged political bosses and start discharging their primary duty of ensuring the safety and security of the Aam Aadmi at long last...........
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