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Police brutality and popular uprisings

June 22, 2009 posted by indiatime |

Three separate news stories that dominated the headlines last week, illustrate how the law enforcement authorities in India are the biggest threat to the rule of law in India.

The first story came from the northeast where 5 of India’s states are under an insurgent siege following a popular uprising by the so-called Maoist rebels. People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA), a tribal movement-turned political force, have recently gone on a warpath, upping the ante by violent demonstrations, an act of defiance against the state and local governments that had thus far utterly neglected the discontent, allowing the local police to wreak havoc at will.

The second story came from the state of Uttar Pradesh, where Ghanshyam Kevat, an infamous dacoit was hunted down and shot to death by the state police. Whereas the police chiefs in the state are interviewing in front of the national media and dreaming big rewards, the dead dacoit’s relatives and neighbors have been telling a different story. They recall Ghanshyam as a man driven to desperation and revenge after his 9-year old niece was raped by a local big shot, knocking every law enforcement door to seek justice, but turned down, mocked and humiliated by the local authorities.

The third story came from Kashmir where a judicial probe has now blamed the police for destroying evidence, and even hinted at the police’s involvement in the rape and murder of two local women. Within days of two local women being found murdered in the canal, the state police had closed the investigation labeling it a case of drowning, and the state’s chief minister, the topmost government authority, kept insisting there was no foul play.

The common theme amongst all the three stories is the police force that regularly flaunts the judicial process, the local governments that continue to be in denial and the idiots in the central government that seem incapable of grasping the basics of such uprisings.


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