The police and the government should hang their heads in shame for traumatising two girls for an innocuous comment, and for failing to take immediate action against the hoodlums who ransacked a hospital and manhandled patients because they didn't like the comment. The police, with great alacrity, arbitrarily applied one section of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and one section of the IT Act to take the girls into custody. The IPC section was then withdrawn and another was applied. The police showed nowhere near that same enthusiasm to bring the hoodlums to book -- it took public outrage and media coverage for them to finally take action.
Unless it wants to condone statesponsored harassment and let criminals decide what is acceptable and what isn't , the government must: 1) Prosecute the men who ransacked the hospital to the fullest extent of the law. Too often, such anti-socials are picked up only to be released on bail in no time at all. Nothing happens to them after that. These people must be made to do at least a year's jail time as well as pay for the damage done to the hospital (we aren't even discussing loss of revenue). There are enough provisions in the law under which exemplary action can be taken -- if the government wants to. 2) The girls who were made to pay Rs 15,000 each as surety must be compensated for the mental agony they were subjected to. It's difficult to place a monetary figure on the trauma they and their families went through, but we would suggest Rs 5 lakh each. 3) Finally, the policemen who took such wrongful action against the girls must be made liable.
At the very least, they should be suspended and their pay docked for a few months. Upholders of the law cannot be allowed to hide behind the uniform while they harass innocent, law-abiding citizens with impunity.
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