Any democracy needs to perform the tasks that will make it
a just and fair society. But an overpopulated country, burdened with poverty,
illiteracy and medieval social thinking prevalent in larger swathes, that India
is, finds it in a deadlock in the political and bureaucratic class lording over
it; overloading over it.
Again, a Sushil Kumar Shinde development, who had compared
the young protesters of Delhi with Maoists and had justified the brutal police crackdown
during the human surge of December 2013 protesting the gangrape of the 23-year
old brave-heart, puts it in legible and understandable terms.
After this recent Delhi rape where a 5-year old girl
was abducted, raped and was left to die by her neighbour and where Shinde’s
Delhi Police tried to cover-up the case as it had tried to do in the December
2013 gangrape case, reports say that Neeraj Kumar, the Delhi Police Commissioner,
might face the heat finally.
On questions of the Delhi Police Commissioner’s removal,
Shinde replied, “I have ordered an inquiry into the two recent incidents-
what happened to Mamata Banerjee at the Planning Commission and the case of
some people entering my house. Action will be taken against those found
responsible for it.”
How pathetic is that statement in the context of the
larger issue – police failure in providing security, police cover-ups in rape cases
like this!
Sad it is!
Shinde did not name Neeraj Kumar here. But that is not the
question. The big and doomed irony is in Shinde’s statement.
Why couldn’t he say that the government was serious in the
overhauling the police machinery after increasing reports of police apathy in
handling rape cases and other women related crimes?
Why couldn’t he say that the government was serious for an
overhaul after reports of cover-up attempts by the Delhi Police emerged?
Why couldn’t he say that the government was serious for an
overhaul as he, like us, the Manmohan’s aam aadmi, was equally shocked by the
police mindset reflected in a senior Delhi
Police official slapping an innocent protesting girl?
Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi and their loyal junior
colleague Sushil Kumar Shinde could not find ‘worthy’ reasons to sack Neeraj
Kumar when the huge protests swept the country in December last year.
They could not see the reason when the Delhi Police brutally charged and manhandled
many protesters using force.
They could not see the light when the Delhi Police was left naked in the courtroom
after it tried to frame some innocent youngsters for murder of one of its
officials but faced the court ire on silly premises of the case.
They have chosen to fail to understand that why, even after
the surge of human emotions, a national debate, and the subsequent demand to
toughen the legal system, the rape cases have increased significantly with the
national capital of India registering 393 cases in just three months.
But haven’t we left expecting sensitivity from the
politicians?
So, Mr. Shinde, entrusted to secure us without
discriminating on any factor (as the father of the Indian Constitution had
envisioned), finds that Mamata Banarjee being heckled or his house being breached
by some three-four protesters are reasons enough for big shake-up in the Delhi
Police.
What the Congress party’s common man, a dying soul, a
mutilated existence, an erupted nation and a watchful world could not do was done
by a small incident of political rivalry between two politically belligerent
groups and by a ‘harmless’ security breach at Shinde’s house.
See! We elect them!