Bharat Rakshak

Could we have missed ...

Saare jaahan se accha
Hindustan hamara

My favourite one ... (in Bengali)

Muktir'o Mondir'o shopano tolay
Koto praan holo bolidan
Lekha achey osroo jolay ... ... ...

<I>Let the people who cry about unjust orders, first publish a rule (gained from past experiences), what can be termed as a unjustified order.</I><P>For starters, how about banning the shooting of <B>unarmed</B> (no weapons, <I>lathis</I>, brickbats, Molotov cocktails etc.) suspects - irrespective o...

An editorial perspective ...<P><A HREF="http://www.thestatesman.net/page.editorial.php3?id=19005&type=Editorial&theme=A" TARGET=_blank><B> POLICE MUST NOT OBEY ILLEGAL ORDERS</B></A><P>Excerpts:<P><I> THE manner of the arrest of Karunanidhi and two union ministers is a profound com...

Sachin:<P>The clarification first … I meant the Police Training School I had seen in Kolkata.<P>It is definitely a little a relieving for me to know that at least some in the khaki force feel squeamish accepting bribes. The “10th Std. Pass” is the sorry part. I take it “pass” means been there, BUT n...

Just what I was saying ...<P><A HREF="http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php3?id=18683&type=India&theme=A" TARGET=_blank><B>Law cannot curb criminalisation of politics, says Advani<BR></B></A><P>Excerpts:<P><I>Mr Advani also rejected members’ demand for security cover in the wak...

Given the force's proclivity towards bribery and playing the political footsie, does anybody think the current crop can EVER revert back to the original reason for them being in existence in the first place? Even if their payscales/benefits are improved? <P>Can any kindly soul please educate me on t...

Sachin, maybe you should change the title of the topic to "Police - again and again!", on lines of <I>baar baar, laga taar ...</I>, apologies to the detergent maker.

<I>Should Policing be privatized or corporatized?</I><P>This idea may not be practical to implement. There are a lot of decisions the police has to take which is inter-twined with the govt. policies which are (more often than not) ad hoc in nature, adopted on a day-to-day basis. Maybe that is why th...

<A HREF="http://www.ndtv.com/topstories/showtopstory.asp?slug=TN+cop+transfer+row+gets+state+CMs+anxious&id=7203" TARGET=_blank><B>TN police transfer row gets state CMs anxious</B></A><P>Excerpts:<P><I>Constitutional experts agree that the matter needs to be settled amicably otherwise ...

The games (deadly) police play ...<P><A HREF="http://www.thestatesman.net/page.supp.p ... wn&theme=A" TARGET=_blank><B>Presumption isn’t proof</B></A><P>

Sachin:<P>I fully agree with Nikhil in that, unless the police forces of the states are brought under the Governor's control, it is difficult to see an efficient police force in India. I think I had written about this suggestion on a Police thread before. Given the state of politics in India, this h...

This rise in the population sounds very scary to me. Forget the %age statistics, since the landmass is a static absolute measure, the focus should be on absolute number so far as population is concerned. Going at this rate, can the land support this population? What is the cut-off population level? ...

<A HREF="http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php3?id=7378&type=Pageone&theme=A" TARGET=_blank><B>Robber Cops</B></A><P>Sachin, if you keep this thread open for some more time, I intend to flood it with news items like this. Don't you blame me after that! http://www.bharat-rakshak...

It would be a good idea to re-educate the police force as to who really are its employer, who really fund their paychecks. From the attitude of the force, it is quite apparent that they mistake the ruling political bosses as their employers and masters, and that the public is, shall we say, an occup...

All over India one sees policemen squatting in <I>chowks</I> and tea stalls wearing a bored look on their faces, almost in a state of transcendental meditation, mind far away from the job on hand of keeping an eye out for trouble and trouble-makers. A typical scene would be something like this – a p...

<I>Actually the suggestion of making the Governer te head of the Police force seems a logical thing to do. But no state will allow that to be done.</I><P>Sachin, agree with you. Just curious if you, or any other members, have any suggestion as to how to get the police force out of the clutches of th...

I have a question for the police-gurus ... If the President can be the supreme commander of the defense forces, what is wrong with the idea of making the Governor the commander-in-chief of the police forces for the state?<P>My appreciation of the command and control structure of the defense forces i...

Good marriage at last !<P>But I don't particularly like the idea of allowing free access of Indian soil to the Israelis, unless of course, it is an emergency.

"India is planing another nuclear test before signing the CTBT" - Tell me it is all true and I'll open the bottle, heck with kababs too !<P>"Indian ambition of becoming a nuclear giant, capable of making its definitions of threat to Indian interests and strike any peaceful country ......

Ki Ki So So Lhargyalo !!!