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Richard Loitam's Law
Hindustan Times | Indrajit Hazra | May 05, 2012
But while Richard Loitam's pointless death may be 'routine' - three frat boys getting into an ugly scrap - its aftermath seems to be an in-your-face example of how law enforcement works in our country. Richard was from Imphal in Manipur. This was not a 'racial' attack - if it was indeed an 'attack' that led to his death in the first place - allegedly by two fellow students from 'mainland' India. This seems like a youngster getting beaten up by his friends for reasons that countless youngsters everywhere get into fights for.
But the way in which the police have sat on the case, 'shielded' the two suspects - they are yet to be taken into police custody - delayed the autopsy report, all these lead one to suspect that even though the crime wasn't a 'hate' crime, the authorities saw it fit, for whatever reason, as a case they could go easy on.
And it's not just professional conspi-racy theorists or bleeding heart artists who share the suspicion with Richard's uncle Bobby Loitam when he says, "If Richard was a boy from Karnataka or Maharashtra, the authorities wouldn't have been so tardy at doing their job."
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