Police behavior in different situations
It is extremely sickening to see the behavior of our police force when it comes to taking cognizance / not taking cognizance of complaints based on who the complainant is. It is a fact that an ordinary citizen is made to wait inordinately for a complaint to be registered in genuine cases of theft, assault, battery, rape et al whereas if the accused or suspect is someone with either money power or well connected, then you need to see it to believe it, the way in which the cops will find excuses to not book the culprits. Two recent cases come straight away to mind, the first one relates to the a young 7 year old girl dying of suffocation in Nitin Gadkari, a BJP MP’s motor vehicle in his residential compound in Nagpur. She apparently got locked inside the car and could not get herself out by opening the door (a bit difficult to believe in this day and age!). The incident took place when Yogita Ashok Thakre, daughter of a domestic help entered Gadkari's car while playing outside his ho...