When the state turn lawless
by Bodh Ramdeo on May 29, 2007 05:49 PM
The concept of investigation and collecting solid evidence is as alien to Indian police as are the concept of ethics, decorum or professionalism. Their M.O. (modus operandi) is typically to arrest the 'suspects' and beat the living crap out of them until they 'confess'. The judges all know this - that's why they don't allow such 'confessions' unless they were made in the presence of a magistrate, yet the unlawful arrests and beatings, and extra-judicial killing - encounter killings, goes on, ad nauseum, with no end in sight. And yes there are criminals and terrorists - those are the ones the cops should be arresting, not innocent folks who are easy targets for the stupid, inept, incompetent, corrupt buffoons that passes for 'the police'. For far too long, from the days of the British Raj, when their job was actually to oppress the natives and protect the Ghora Sahibs, right on up to the present day, the corrupt cops, pliant creatures of corrupt netas, have had a free hand to do almost anything they pleased, with complete impuntiy.
