Brutal, bestial, inhuman, callous, indifferent, a power unto themselves, trigger happy, suppliant, bending over backwards in order to please their political masters and a few more are the choice epithets that have come to be associated with the Delhi police off late......
"With you for you always" is the governing dictum of the Delhi police, yes the Delhi police is certainly at the beck and call of their political overlords and masters, over 65% of them are deployed on/in security and bandobast related duties of their overlords and masters, 10% of them constantly report sick or are then unfit to perform their assigned duties for some inane reason or the other and the remaining 25% are simply too few to accord a feeling of safety and security amongst the populace of one of India's most densely populated metropolises.......
Loutishness and an unabashed and totally arrogant display of police power has been the calling card of the Delhi police ever since Delhiites started congregating in droves to raise their collective voices against the pronounced inability of the Delhi police to provide a modicum of safety and security to millions of hapless women who become nothing more than sitting ducks in the complete absence of the same.......
The existence of two India's within the five hundred odd square kilometres of India's capital territory is a stark reality thanks to the irrational and ham handed behaviour of the Delhi police personnel; the Delhi police displays tenets of subservient, deferential and sycophant behaviour towards it's lords and masters and a brutal, loutish, inhuman and barbaric behavioural pattern towards those common people who are neither well connected politically nor enjoy the perks related to power, pelf and economic prosperity........
Slaps, a barrage of lathis, blows and punches, water cannons, tear gas shells and a lot more besides are the bane of an average Delhiites everyday existence and so forlorn and woebegone has the situation on the ground become that more than a few Delhiites have begun to accept the same as an existential hazard and even begun turning a blind eye towards the presence of the same.......
Unfortunately, the Delhi police seems to have bitten off more than it can chew in the latest instance, the brouhaha attached to the rather heart rending spectacle of defenceless, weaponless and hapless residents of Delhi being mercilessly lathi charged by the men in khakhi at India Gate had just about died down that the Delhi police finds itself staring down the end of a rather long and desolate barrel thanks to a trigger happy DCP stationed in the relatively impoverished and downtrodden North east region of the capital city slapping a female Aam Aadmi party volunteer at least four times if various reports emanating from various sections of the media are to be believed......
And pray what was the crime of the said women volunteer; she was raising her voice along with hundreds of others like her against the area police's indifference towards the heart rending plight of a five year old rape victim and their pronounced inability to provide the same victim with adequate and essential medical facilities.......
Infact so brutal and heinous was the assault on the Aam Aadmi party volunteer that she received copiously bleeding injuries on the internal part of one ear and had to be treated forthwith within the same hospital outside whose portals she was ironically protesting.......
As is customary, the police commissioner of Delhi has not only suspended the concerned ACP but also the SHO of the police station under whose jurisdiction the five year old girl was brutally raped and savaged as well as the investigating officer who failed or then simply registered to register a missing complaint in the first instance and then offered the mother of the girl a token amount of 2,000 rupees in order to save his side.......
Most if not all of us know the ultimate or eventual outcome of such departmental enquiries, the erring cops will be reprimanded and then ushered in through the back door once the public's memory about the incident fades away and the din, clamour and collective baying for blood fizzles out and dies it's natural death......
Such cosmetic enquiries are not the solution to the problem, far reaching, time bound, effective, efficacious and sweeping police reforms are; one was witness to the tragi-comic spectacle of the Congress representative Abid Rasool and the person incharge of the Congress' online campaigns Tehseen Poonawala taking the supposedly moral high ground and advocating the cause of sweeping police reforms in a debate on Newshour last night......
May one take the liberty of asking the very same Abid Rasool as to why he has not advocated and initiated the much desired police reforms in his home state of Andhra Pradesh, the said state has a Congress chief minister and a police set up eminently suitable to his professed cause, "charity begins at home" Mr. Rasool or then was the pretext of police reforms just another attempt at side stepping this rather contentious and divisive issue........
As things stand at the present moment, the honourable Supreme Court is the only ray of hope in this if not all other such related cases, the Chief Justice of India and two other fellow judges have sought off missives to all the state authorities asking for detailed and time bound replies pertaining to the state of political reforms within their territorial boundary........
This missive is the only way forward so let's all barrage the Supreme Court with a barrage of reminders, pleas and public interest litigations related to the issue of long delayed and desired police reforms, collective action is the crying need of the hour, so let's aside our petty differences for the moment and come together on a common platform.......
"With you for you always" is the governing dictum of the Delhi police, yes the Delhi police is certainly at the beck and call of their political overlords and masters, over 65% of them are deployed on/in security and bandobast related duties of their overlords and masters, 10% of them constantly report sick or are then unfit to perform their assigned duties for some inane reason or the other and the remaining 25% are simply too few to accord a feeling of safety and security amongst the populace of one of India's most densely populated metropolises.......
Loutishness and an unabashed and totally arrogant display of police power has been the calling card of the Delhi police ever since Delhiites started congregating in droves to raise their collective voices against the pronounced inability of the Delhi police to provide a modicum of safety and security to millions of hapless women who become nothing more than sitting ducks in the complete absence of the same.......
The existence of two India's within the five hundred odd square kilometres of India's capital territory is a stark reality thanks to the irrational and ham handed behaviour of the Delhi police personnel; the Delhi police displays tenets of subservient, deferential and sycophant behaviour towards it's lords and masters and a brutal, loutish, inhuman and barbaric behavioural pattern towards those common people who are neither well connected politically nor enjoy the perks related to power, pelf and economic prosperity........
Slaps, a barrage of lathis, blows and punches, water cannons, tear gas shells and a lot more besides are the bane of an average Delhiites everyday existence and so forlorn and woebegone has the situation on the ground become that more than a few Delhiites have begun to accept the same as an existential hazard and even begun turning a blind eye towards the presence of the same.......
Unfortunately, the Delhi police seems to have bitten off more than it can chew in the latest instance, the brouhaha attached to the rather heart rending spectacle of defenceless, weaponless and hapless residents of Delhi being mercilessly lathi charged by the men in khakhi at India Gate had just about died down that the Delhi police finds itself staring down the end of a rather long and desolate barrel thanks to a trigger happy DCP stationed in the relatively impoverished and downtrodden North east region of the capital city slapping a female Aam Aadmi party volunteer at least four times if various reports emanating from various sections of the media are to be believed......
And pray what was the crime of the said women volunteer; she was raising her voice along with hundreds of others like her against the area police's indifference towards the heart rending plight of a five year old rape victim and their pronounced inability to provide the same victim with adequate and essential medical facilities.......
Infact so brutal and heinous was the assault on the Aam Aadmi party volunteer that she received copiously bleeding injuries on the internal part of one ear and had to be treated forthwith within the same hospital outside whose portals she was ironically protesting.......
As is customary, the police commissioner of Delhi has not only suspended the concerned ACP but also the SHO of the police station under whose jurisdiction the five year old girl was brutally raped and savaged as well as the investigating officer who failed or then simply registered to register a missing complaint in the first instance and then offered the mother of the girl a token amount of 2,000 rupees in order to save his side.......
Most if not all of us know the ultimate or eventual outcome of such departmental enquiries, the erring cops will be reprimanded and then ushered in through the back door once the public's memory about the incident fades away and the din, clamour and collective baying for blood fizzles out and dies it's natural death......
Such cosmetic enquiries are not the solution to the problem, far reaching, time bound, effective, efficacious and sweeping police reforms are; one was witness to the tragi-comic spectacle of the Congress representative Abid Rasool and the person incharge of the Congress' online campaigns Tehseen Poonawala taking the supposedly moral high ground and advocating the cause of sweeping police reforms in a debate on Newshour last night......
May one take the liberty of asking the very same Abid Rasool as to why he has not advocated and initiated the much desired police reforms in his home state of Andhra Pradesh, the said state has a Congress chief minister and a police set up eminently suitable to his professed cause, "charity begins at home" Mr. Rasool or then was the pretext of police reforms just another attempt at side stepping this rather contentious and divisive issue........
As things stand at the present moment, the honourable Supreme Court is the only ray of hope in this if not all other such related cases, the Chief Justice of India and two other fellow judges have sought off missives to all the state authorities asking for detailed and time bound replies pertaining to the state of political reforms within their territorial boundary........
This missive is the only way forward so let's all barrage the Supreme Court with a barrage of reminders, pleas and public interest litigations related to the issue of long delayed and desired police reforms, collective action is the crying need of the hour, so let's aside our petty differences for the moment and come together on a common platform.......
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