Mr.
Abhishek, I don’t think you ever
have visited Police station to
register a case! Else your opinion
would have been different.
Now, the question is who should be
controlled first? Mob or
Administration?
Definitely mob justice is a
consequence of Administration
ineptness.
So, Administration should be
rectified first then mob justice
will automatically come to halt.
A simple case study will be to
prevent train robbery for six months
on the section Kiul-Mokama-Patna-Ara
of East Central Railway; if no
incidences then we can say
Administration is getting upright
and hence “Aam Aadmi” of Bihar may
get justice in time.
Then second action to open police
outpost in each village of Bihar and
let police to register every
complaint. The outpost should also
have a feedback box whose keys will
be on the hand of Feedback ministry.
Third action should be to constitute
a Feedback ministry, which will be
led by a renowned senior citizen, an
MLA of good repute and a Police
commissioner. The ministry should do
weekly review on feedback letters
deposited by people in feedback
boxes of Police outpost. Based on
the feedback, six monthly appraisals
of Police should be done. Those who
are doing good job should be
appreciated and awarded and the bad
performers should be laid off from
the duty.
This will bring back people’s faith
on Law enforcement agencies. -
Parshuram - Sept. 18, 2007
Incidents of 'instant justice' meted
out by mobs are becoming far common
in Bihar. Some major incidents that
took place there were,
1) Bihar villagers lynch ten
suspected thieves.
2) An angry mob gouged out eyes of 3
thieves who snatched a motorbike in
Nawada, Bihar.
3) Police and mob brutality at
Bhagalpur, Bihar and
4) Two children were beaten up and
paraded in the streets with their
heads tonsured in Nawada, Bihar.
The most surprising and considerable
matter is that whether these
'instant justice' are the beginning
of an 'autocrat-free Bihar or
autocrat-full Bihar'.
A system where justice is routinely
delayed lends dangerous and
misplaced legitimacy to 'instant
justice'.
So the state government must act to
put down such tendencies firmly and
punish those guilty.
The excuse that in mob violence it
was difficult to identify the guilty
doesn't wash. However, merely
ensuring that people don't take the
law in their own hands is not
enough. The police and judiciary
must be seen to deliver justice
within reasonable time periods.
Other side, Bihar has found a
winning formula to snub out Kalazar
under Bihar's Kalazar Task Force
Chief and former minister Dr. C. P.
Thakur is really a good news which
shows Bihar's progress in the field
of public health.
It's a well known adage that 'Rome
was not built in a day'. So it will
take some time for the
implementation of proper law and
order in the state. But the
government should implement the law
and order as soon as possible
without further delaying it. -
Rajnish Kumar, Bangalore - Sept. 19,
2007
Hi Abhishek, I totally agree with
your sentiments about Bihar’s image
getting tarnished due to these
incidents.
I would like to add just a new
dimension to these news and
incidents. In my point of view,
India has been an agricultural state
where the economy is entirely based
upon cultivation, crop and grains.
Therefore the feudal nature of
society is here since ancient time
and getting stronger due to increase
in population and decrease in land
share.
Therefore, the mob-justice, which I
call social justice, is present all
around India. It's not the matter of
name of the state where it occurs.
The electronic media has some vested
interest in showing such incidents
only in anti-congress ruled states
like Bihar, UP, Rajasthan, Madhya
Pradesh. Otherwise, there are
several such cases happening
everyday in rural area of Andhra
Pradesh but no one is taking pain of
reporting.
I have some points which I would
like to get clarifications from
Media, Human Rights Commission and
other such Self-Praising Groups:
Take the case of Bhagalpur thief
thrashing incident, everybody is
showing sympathy for the thief.
Nobody is thinking about the
economic loss which the lady would
have suffered if this man would have
been successful in snatching. Some
say, that the right way to punish
that man is to send him to jail, but
the police records state that he had
already gone twice but still doing
the same.
I would like to tell another real
incident, which occurred to one of
my distant relatives. She was
traveling from Patna to Bhagalpur
for attending a marriage ceremony
rightly laden with light jewelry.
She was having the window seat in
the train. At Lakhisarai station,
when the train stopped, she saw a 18
year old boy staring at her. She
couldn’t understand anything and
kept looking outside the window. As
the train started leaving the
station, the boy started running
with the speedy train. At the outer
cabin, he flew his hand from window
and gripped her right ear tightly.
With high speed, the ear-lobe got
detached from the body and profuse
bleeding started. All these happen
only due the golden ear ring she was
wearing.
Can anyone tell me how that snatcher
would be punished and, whether he
would be punished for snatching or
attempt to kill and who would punish
him?
Everybody is advocating the legal
methods to punish such criminals.
But can anyone tell me, from where
that lady would get time and money
to fight the case and get the
criminal punished?
Media men, politician, HRC persons,
whatever they say over television,
they know very well in their mind
and heart that the justice has been
done. Just keep yourself in the
ladies place and imagine what you
would expect from the public??
In India, already there have been
practices of catching dacoits,
thieves, murderers and handing over
to the police. But, most of them
have been absolved of the charges
due to lack of witness, slow and
tardy legal process, political
influences. Many of them have now
joined politics and are ruling the
same public against whom, they
offended crimes. The most brutal
examples are Phoolan Devi,
Shahabuddin, Sadhu Yadav and a lot
more. Now, what would the internal
thinking of the public? Naturally,
they would think in the terms of
following other ways and paths of
justice, so that these small
criminals could not be their owner,
ruler in future. - Ravish Kumar,
Hyderabad - Sept. 20, 2007 |
