Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Police brutality on rise in Punjab and Bihar

Police personnel appear to have lost all sense of sensitivity. State governments of Punjab and Bihar have left them unbridled. If the police action of thrashing a woman in Tarn Taran of Punjab and canning and thrashing of contractual teachers before the state assembly in Patna caught on Camera is anything to go by, there is no doubt left in the mind of the people that our democratically elected governments in the states are sliding in regression. It also appears that the democratically elected governments encourage police brutality on the people. The Supreme Court of India has rightly taken strong exception of recent incidents of police beating protesting contractual teachers in Bihar and a girl in Tarn Taran in Punjab by seeking explanation from these two states on the conduct of police personnel. Police is meant for protecting and providing security to the common. What crime had the woman in Tarn Taran had committed that the six police personnel canned and pushed her all around in full view of the public. Regression has set in the society also. December 16 Delhi gang rape victim was crying in pain on the roadside after she was thrown out of moving bus but no scooter, biker and car-borne persons passed by her side slowly but did not stop to provide rescue to her. Likewise, no onlookers in Tarn Taran objected to the beating of the woman by police men. She had gone to police only for lodging complaint about her molestation by truckers. The fixed pay teachers- male and female- were beaten badly by police force in Patna outside the state assembly because were protesting for regularization of services and pay parity with government teachers. The state where the teachers are beaten by the police what improvement in education can be made there. The appointment of contractual teachers was made without following any standard of parameters of selection. They were appointed on a local basis on a lump sum amount in order to build a strong vote bank. Now, when they demand parity with full-fledged government teachers, they are beaten by the police. As no criteria of educational standard were followed in selection, the standard of education in primary schools has gone all time low in Bihar. The protest is the right of the citizen in democracy. The way the police personnel were chasing the lady teachers in Patna amply reflect that the state government has lost all sense of respect for women. From the incidents of Tarn Taran and Patna, it appears crystal clear that once the political parties are elected to power, they use the police to suppress the voices of the people. The government uses police as bulwark against all attacks on its functioning. The Patna contractual teachers' protest makes it amply clear that the police personnel have lost all sense of sensitivity. The time has come for civil society to come forward and oppose tooth nail police atrocities on women.

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