Monday, August 27, 2007

Cops in Dock for Greeting Sanjay on His Release

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2313087.cms

The Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, RR Patil, is absolutely right in saying that the policemen violated the police manual as well as the Maharashtra Civil Services Rules when they embraced Sanjay Dutt and promptly ordered a departmental inquiry against them. The media should not raise such a din over his forgetting to order a similar action against his fellow cabinet minister, Baba Siddiki, the minister for labour, food and civil supplies, who committed the same offence. After all, the Deputy Chief Minister is a busy man! It is, in any case, expecting too much from him to equate a politician with other lesser, ordinary citizens of the state? He does wear the same color cap and knows it could be his turn next if he picks on his own kin.

Fortunately, good sense prevailed and Chief Minister Vilasrao deshmukh revoked his over exuberant deputy's orders. It would, however, be interesting to know if the policemen were emulating an example set by the minister or was it the other way round!

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