Good thoughts no doubt. But these 'rogue cops' do NOT work like 'rogue' elephants, individually, on their own volition. They take orders from more powerful elements, including members of the command structure and elected officialdom. The 'editorial's - omission of the above, either out of ignorance or by intent, underscores Indian intelligentsia's ABSENCE from its supposedly 'democratic' governance or its acceptance of the aberration with a wink and a nod. And there lies the crux of the problem.
cm PS: I don't know how I got permission to enter this august list. But I do hope my post goes thru, uncensored. At 10:18 AM +0530 4/26/07, D S Gill wrote: >EDITORIAL > >We appreciate and welcome this editorial: IHRO >Faking encounters >Rogue cops must be punished > >Fake police encounters are the most abhorrent legacy of terrorism in >Punjab. The same is true of Jammu and Kashmir and several other >states as well. Every such killing of an innocent person, branded a >terrorist, has encouraged the killer cops to dispense with renewed >vengeance this rough and ready brand of justice, which in reality is >an extreme form of injustice. So many dark secrets have been swept >under the proverbial carpet that it now looks like a tent of >skeletons. Mercifully, uncomfortable questions have come to be asked >by the courts. That is why three IPS officers have been arrested by >the Gujarat Police on a charge of murder for their alleged role in >the death of a man in a fake encounter near Ahmedabad in 2005. >Sheikh Sohrabuddin Sheikh was done to death and wrongly described as >a Lashkar-e-Toiba operative targeting Gujarat Chief Minister >Narendra Modi. The so-called encounter was so blatant that the >government had to admit that it was fake and it disowned the police >officers - Inspector-General (border range) D.G. Vanzara, >Superintendent of Police Rajkumar Pandayan of the state intelligence >wing, and M.N. Dinesh, SP of Rajasthan's Alwar district. Vanzara was >chief of the anti-terrorist squad at the time of the Sheikh's >killing while Pandayan was his deputy. > >IPS officers constitute the steel-frame of the police structure. >They are supposed to be keepers of the force's morality and >integrity. But, in reality, they kowtow to the political masters by >bending all rules. The abhorrent practice of faking encounters >started as an extra-judicial method of eliminating terrorists who >could not be controlled through legal methods. It soon degenerated >into the cold-blooded murder of even innocents, either to please the >bosses or to get rewards. Even Army men have been found to be >involved in concocting such stories. > >India has had to pay a heavy price for this horror. The country's >reputation has been compromised. The common man has lost faith in >the security agencies and junior functionaries have started >emulating their seniors. Such killers in uniform are a disgrace and >must be weeded out ruthlessly and given the severest punishment. If >it is wrong on the part of criminals to target innocents, it is a >hundred times more so in the case of government servants. > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > ><*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/ > ><*> Your email settings: > Individual Email | Traditional > ><*> To change settings online go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/join > (Yahoo! ID required) > ><*> To change settings via email: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ><*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ><*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
