We all know that "encounter" killings and custodial torture are all too common in the Indian police system. Niceties such as abstaining from profiling are still a long way off. The blasts in Mumbai were a heinous crime and the police should do all that is (legally) possible to arrest those behind it. At the same time, to suggest that the police are being held in check by human rights safeguards is laughable.
What we need is:
*more legal and procedural training for the police so that cases are not thrown out of court on technicalities and due to lack of evidence
*faster court system
*tougher sentences - sentences in, for example the US, are much longer for similar crimes
*safeguards against political interference whether from Mulayam or Modi
*more accountability and less complacency from official agencies like the railways. If it took them just three days to install CCTV's after the blasts, why did they dither for two years before that?
As to your views on illegal immigrants, why don't you refer to them as "overflowing refuse" in any conversation while you are in England and gauge the response that you get.
