Anyway, my 2p on the article: I can empathise partially at least with the policemen. Considreing how our judiciary works, it can be frustrating if criminals can walk the streets with impunity. I mean, so many of them are ministers! But on the other hand, can we really subvert the law?
We should stop looking at the whole incident from the prism of Hindu/Muslim relations. The police took the laws into their own hands, and killed a man who, by all accounts, seems to have been rather a lowlife. The only place where his religion plays a role of any importance is how he was classified a terrorist; this I believe was made possible because he was a Muslim.
But the same thing would have been done to a Hindu extortionist under the same circumstances. Okay, he may not have been called a terrorist, but the police would have thought of something else - or never mentioned it at all.
Case in point: Anybody remember the Rajan murder case in Kerala from the days of Emergency? I guess Mallus on these forums would remember. This engineering student was picked upf rom his hostel room, branded a naxalite, and his body has never been found. The man behind it all - a Congress home minister named Karunakaran - still lives happily on (unless I haven't heard the good news yet).
