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Can we be called civilised?
by Mak C on May 29, 2007 10:34 AM

What's happening to our thought processes? How can we accept a police force which has such inferior crime detection, prosecution abilities that they have to resort to encounters so that they can avoid work and need not function as law provides for in a democracy. Instead of applauding, one should question the process which allows infiltration of the police force by such elements who, instead of refining their abilities resort to shortcuts(I still want to believe that the larger section of police force is free of communalism). We should also question the political system, irrespective of the party in power, which interferes or dictates to the law-enforcers, causing them to behave in this lawless way. Remember the law provides for being innocent until proven guilty(aren't many of our politicians themselves utilising this cover under the law?). You cannot enact an encounter on an innocent, be it a hindu, christian, buddhist or even if it seems fashionable, a muslim. If the law terrorises and targets any community, it will be forced to defend itself even if it has to be outside the strictures of law. Preservation of one's life is a supreme factor which guides all humans alike. It's a shame in a society if one is called upon to defend one's life from law-enforcers even when you are innocent. It is wrong to brand all muslims as terrorists as much as it is wrong to brand all gujratis as communal fanatics. We are at the risk of turning a perfect democratic nation into a Hindu Pakista

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