Thank you Roland. —vjp On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Roland <[email protected]> wrote:
> A few days ago, Goa's retiring Inspector General of Prisons Elvis Gomes > made the following statement to the press: > "There is no law and order in the state administration". > > That was a powerful denouement from a high ranking official but he said > nothing new that other ranking officials in other places in India had not > said before. > > On the subject of police torture, some honest and introspecting top police > officers have been saying for many years that police are not trained to do > their job according to the law and therefore resort to torture to > substitute for their lack of skill in interrogation. > > Judges know about this but they tend to ignore it because it's "one of > those things in a generally bad legal system" that a civilized country must > eventually rectify. > > Now a Tamil film has been chosen as India's entry for the Oscars in the > foreign film category. > > BBC's coverage makes interesting reading. > > https://www.google.ca/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/37469678?client=safari > > Roland Francis > Toronto.
