State and Supreme Court Verdict |
By: Loya Maisnam * |
The rotten police images in the state still forecast the crying need of the police reformation for the reason that we have no police to police the police viciousness. In fact, with regards to policing the police in the state, I am not widely summarized that the recent article from Aya A. Shimray who wrote in the Sangai Express edition of August 29, 2006 but in short, it was a fantastic and categorically written express of the writer which always should not be left fold by everyone, I cheerfully uttered that my people must go with the article keeping with regardless to the psychopathic mind. He ironically structurized the present day's self-style commandos of the state police department and any other uniformed men, who even do not understand the meaning of commando and his powerful Kalashnikov. The brutality, indecent behaviours, senseless tactics and torture to the innocent people to open the mouth wide to get the certain clues of the underground person, the feelings of self-pride by the power of his Kalashnikov rifles and khakis, and what not, the taxing of hefty bucks from the stalls and even from the rickshaw drivers everyday, these all are what Shimray relayed, the police story of the land where the unnamed bullets are raining underneath the disputed region. Now, here goes the story of some unsung police issues unearthed, by then, as a part why the SC brought to ruled the verdicts for the police reformation: 1. Bihar
Would this police story and the ruled of SC's endorsed verdict to be applicable in the right way to reform the odds police story of the state? In this regard KPS Gill Ex DGP denounced that the total autonomy to the police is impossible and he opined that, has the Police Act, 1861, ever been implemented in letter and spirit anywhere in India? He speaks out tagging the Naxalite problem in light, he question how the police, for instance will deal with the Naxalite problem without the political direction? These are the few questions like a handful of sand in a seashore. Like wise in Manipur and any other insurgency prone states of northeast India, it is ironical that who is going to frame petition and accusation against the police actions? Because, the draconian inoffensive laws like Terrorist and Disruptive Act, Prevention and Terrorism Act, 2002, National Security Act and Armed Forces Special Power Act, 1958 are the acts that will proof and can counter the Supreme Court's ruling that has slated to be implemented by the centre and the states by the December 31, 2006. Here is the list of reforms:
An outline extraction is being narrate as, concerned that political interference and politicization of police were eating into the vitals of civil society, on April 3, 1997, Indrajit Gupta, then Home Minister, wrote in a letter to chief ministers, " l have a feeling that if the political executive does not take the desire measures to bring about reforms, the may not be far when the judiciary may force such socially-desirable changes down it's throat ". It is an irony that India, a vanguard of crusade against colonialism suffered colonial style of policing for six decades, the only change being that the white man was replaced by the brown. But the bigger irony was that in the world's biggest democracy, the change came, not through the legislature, but by judicial intervention. He pointed out that the temptations of the post-independence elite to use this potent instrument to subserve its power interests were too strong to allow any change. Lacking political sincerely and will, scores of police commissions and committees failed to prevent use, misuse and abuse of the police machinery for the advantage of a select few at the cost of those who needed their help and protection most. He further narrates that politicization of police manifests itself in diverse forms, the worst being interpretation and execution of law in a manner which favoured those in power and hurt those who are seen as adversaries. Over the years, the quest for "own people" and not the best people, contaminated the systems of recruitment, promotions, placements, etc. as politics started polarizing around caste and sectarian lines, police also couldn't remain insulated. Some districts saw more than half-a-dozen SPs in a year. He criticized that the SC decision will go a long way in correcting this distortion. In such a situation, who will police the police still struck behind the SC verdict in the state Manipur. Many unsung dozens of police stories have been reckoned and buried in the chronicles of people's mental diary, which has beset as only a gift of trauma to the people of the state and still making the menaces by leaving the dark rouge in the mindset of the people. Don't ever leave the storyline of the police reformation and the Supreme Court verdict, which the state has still time to give compliance for the implementation of the order. And, see how the reality bites with the fractured anarkhos government and how the society of a few lakh citizens backup to its positive responds. Because we have almost seen that the politically, militarily and economically fractured state has a long way to go when the interpretation of law, morality and ethics comes as a learning topic in associates with the SC order of the police reformation. It is to have believe that we have had come a long way underneath the burden of the ethnic cleansing, ethno nationalistic movements, hegemony, oligarchy, communal riot, and moreover along the transnational actions, we are bitterly beaten without a single word of internal and the collective security of the state. Do we sometimes mind that whenever we unearth the unleashed of the state's astringently deteriorated multi-governmental leash administration which everyone has been intervened whenever flying high with Dove to unleash the dark cloud? We're always be deemed to move not beyond and above the any judicial intervention, so it would be a tranquility that a closed encounter we're tend to cope the aftermath of the SC verdict. Loya Maisnam,a Delhi based Freelance Journalist, writes regularly to e-pao.net The writer can be contacted at [email protected] This article was webcasted on October 4th, 2006 |
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