Delhi Police, The Mafia

By abhay mokashi

The Oxford Dictionary defines police as an official organisation whose job is to make people obey the law and to prevent and solve crime; the people who work for this organisation.

The reference to the definition of the word police has been necessitated due to the way  the notorious Delhi Police has been functioning over the last couple of years or so. Delhi police is working like the private army of a mafia group, because it does not notice people giving hate speeches and slogans, but is quick to act on those fighting for the implementation of the law in the country.

The Delhi Police cannot still find the culprits who had indulged in violence on the Jawaharlal Nehru University or those who made provocative statements to damage the fabric of communal harmony in the country. But the Delhi Police takes immediate action against those who protest against such elements.

It is not quick to act against rapists, but seeks to act against those who raise their voice against such crimes.

Over the last three days, the Delhi Police was deaf and blind to those who gave slogans amounting to a call to lynch Muslims, but was quick to pick up those who came out on the streets of Delhi to seek peace and to protest against the failure of the police to take action against those who gave those provocative slogans.

The message is clear from the Union Home Ministry that those who poison the minds of the people against the Muslims, those who give hate speeches and indulge in violence against the minorities will not be penalised by the police, nay they will be protected by the Delhi Police. This can happen when the police force is in the hands of people with a criminal mind and those who have scant respect for the law or the Constitution.

The ratio of the police to protestors was very high, when students and youth came out on the streets pledging by Hindu-Muslim unity. Each protestor was picked up by around eight to ten police personnel. Strangely, there were very few police personnel at the protest, where people gave provocative slogans and it took three days for the police to take action against just a few of them and that action was following criticism of Delhi Police from all over the country.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, under whom the Delhi Police works, is thick-skinned and criticism does not have any effect on him. He is not merely thick-skinned, he is also heartless, which has been reflected by his inaction on several occasions, the latest being his silence on the rape of the nine-year old girl in Delhi and her cremation by the rapists.

With such a person heading the police, the behaviour of the Delhi Police is not surprising. The force seems to have got a clear signal to act in such a way that it will help the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and its ideology; law abiding people can go to hell.

The Delhi Police has stooped so low that it will be difficult for people to see their presence to protect the law. No police force in the country must have stooped so low even under the British. Several British police officers are said to have refused to act against the law; Delhi Police takes pride in doing so!

The behaviour of Delhi Police is a clear failure of the executive, the legislative (Parliament) has failed as no debate on public issues can be held in either of the Houses of the Parliament; the less said about the media, the better. A large section of the mainstream media has surrendered itself to doing public relations for the Union Government, the BJP and the communal forces, rather than practicing journalism.

In such a situation the only recourse to the people is the judiciary, but for a variety of reasons ordinary people cannot knock the doors of the judiciary. It is therefore expected of the judiciary to act. The judiciary has pulled up the Delhi Police in the recent past, now it should suo moto take up the issue of the hate speeches in Delhi and bring the guilty to justice.

If the culprits are allowed to go scot-free, it could be a disaster for the country, which is anyway heading for one in the present situation.