Insensitivity of UP police force

The police force of the nation needs to be sensitized to take care of the trauma of rape and all other crime victims when they report the complaint. And this exercise must begin from the lower ranks of policemen if the manner in which all police women behaved with the 10 year old poor rape victim in Bulandshahar of UP. The police officer of the inspector rank put the minor rape victim in police lock-up when she went there with her mother to lodge complaint against the perpetrator of the crime. She had to spend the whole night in lock-up at police station. It means the nationwide public outrage against 16/12 Delhi gang rape did not make any impact on the police force to bring improvement in its functioning. The police force appears to be completely insensitive to rape incidents at least at the police station level when the victims first go there to lodge their complaints. According to the newspaper reports, the police officer of the inspector rank was present at the police station when the minor rape victim was put in lock-up for whole night. It means when the police officer of the SHO rank neither knows about any law of the land nor has he or she sensitivity to the rape victims, what can we expect of any sensibility from the lower rank officer and the simple constable? The Supreme Court of India has rightly taken cognizance of the incident and asked the UP police department to send all reports in detail about the case of minor girl rape and her whole night ordeal in police lock-up. When the apex court intervened, the government of Uttar Pradesh has woken up and put all police personnel deputed with the police station under suspension. It is also not surprising that whether it is police or civil administration, it has always found to be on the side of criminals in UP. And this trend is especially experienced when there is Samajwadi Party government in the state. UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is young, energetic, forward-looking and of liberal nature but he has failed so far to come up to the expectation of the people in UP. It is only because of his being in the clutches of the senior leaders of the party who never allow him to apply his own mind to deal with any problem in the state. The Supreme Court and the fourth estate is the last hope of the people, especially of weaker sections, for justice. Neither legislative nor the executive delivers its duty honestly and promptly. It is seen and experienced that unless and until the judiciary asks the executive to act, it deliberately avoids taking action.