The recent suicide of a rape victim in front of the ADGP in Police Hqs. over inaction taken by the police in arresting the two rapist constables over the last 3 months even after repeated representations made to all senior officers-SP, SSP and IGP shows the scant regard for human life and insensitivity of the Indian police in protecting the interests of the people it is paid to protect. Mere transfers that also when the final whistle is blown in the form of the woman ending her life speaks low of the administration's sense of judgement in penalising the errant officers in proportion to their inaction that cost a loss of life in so desperate a way as to consume pesticides for the suicide.
Either their is something desperately wrong in the selection procedure to the civil services or the politicisation of bureaucracy once the supposed to be the cream of our youth enters the services that insensitivity, inaction, lethargy, failure to deliver, corruption and all other vices inflict the persona of the officer. The inability to stand up to the tempting deviations leads to the corrosion of the efficiency and justice delivery process.
And is it not happening almost all over the 32 lac 86 thousand sq. km of Indian territory. Is it not the height of human insensitivity that first we allow things to spoil to their best and then tighten our waist up to act tough. Is it not a habit with us that the honest police officers are kept on the radar of the govt. and instead of appreciating their work they are put on insipid posts. Dint Y.P. Singh of IPS resign because he refused to go with the corruption, criminalisation and politicisation of the force and instead took to law as his career.
Their is a deeper genesis in it. The unwillingness of the C.M. whose minister's son was convicted in a murder case to drop him from the cabinet for a long time cements the obnoxious nexus of criminals and politicians which results in such aberrations and gives boost to the culprits of all hues to carry on their nefarious activities without the fear of being punished.
The recent picture of the culprit constable beeming a big smile to the media on his arrest speaks the kind of remorse for which the activists of human rights cry at the top of their voices once the capital punishment is meted out to these culprits. In fact such a crime by the protectors of law and order must be dealt with a heavy hand even if it requires to hang them on the street crossing. The inefficient justice and high rate of acquittals has not been a deterrent of the least denominator.
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