A six-year-old boy was beaten to death by a neighbour at a village in Murshidabad district of West Bengal on 3rd Apr 2008, while three policemen present there stood as mute spectators. Inspite of the villagers pleading with them to intervene, the policemen did nothing to stop the heinous crime from being committed. Following the incident, women of the village came out of their homes with sticks and damaged two police vehicles parked at the spot. District police authorities suspended the three constables who were present when the child was being beaten up, along with an assistant sub-inspector who had also gone to the spot. Somehow, the story sounds familiar!
The incident of a serious crime being committed, this time a child being beaten to death, in the presence of the police without the latter taking any preventive action, is not new. Neither is people taking the law into their hands a new development in the country. Unfortunately, the police going through the sham drill of suspending the guilty policemen is also an old police trick to put the incident in the cold storage. It is only a matter of time before the policemen are reinstated, maybe at some other location. One cannot find fault with the police in the country detrminedly sticking to its track record!
Unless the role of the policemen is treated at par with abetment to murder and exemplary action, with a committed intent to stem the rot, taken against them there will be no let up in criminals roaming freely and the police continuing to remain a rag tag outfit meant to serve only politicians and criminals.
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