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Showing posts with label Protection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Protection. Show all posts
Monday, July 18, 2011
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
COMMUNAL VIOLENCE: A bill to settle a terrible debt!
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This October 21, 2008 photo shows a taxi damaged during a protest by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena supporters in South Mumbai against the arrest of their chief Raj Thackeray for his alleged involvement in the attack on Biharis. File Photo: Vivek Bendre.
For decades, the victims of communal and targeted violence have been denied protections of law that the rest of us take for granted. It's time to end this injustice.
In a vibrant and mature democracy, there would be no need to have special laws to prosecute the powerful or protect the weak. If a crime takes place, the law would simply take its course. In a country like ours, however, life is not so simple. Terrible crimes can be committed involving the murder of hundreds and even thousands of people, or the loot of billions of rupees. But the law in India does not take its course. More often than not, it stands still.
If the Lokpal bill represents an effort to get the law to change its course on the crime of corruption, the new draft bill on the prevention of communal and targeted violence is a modest contribution towards ensuring that India's citizens enjoy the protection of the state regardless of their religion, language or caste.
The draft law framed by the National Advisory Council and released earlier this month for comment and feedback is a huge improvement over the bill originally drawn up by the United Progressive Alliance government in 2005. The earlier version paid lip service to the need for a law to tackle communal violence but made matters worse by giving the authorities greater coercive powers instead of finding ways to eliminate the institutional bias against the minorities, Dalits and adivasis, which lies at the heart of all targeted violence in India.
The November 1984 massacre of Sikhs provides a good illustration of how the institutionalised “riot system” works. Let us start with the victim. She is unable to get the local police to protect the lives of her family members or property. She is unable to file a proper complaint in a police station. Senior police officers, bureaucrats and Ministers, who by now are getting reports from all across the city, State and country, do not act immediately to ensure the targeted minorities are protected. Incendiary language against the victims is freely used. Women who are raped or sexually assaulted get no sympathy or assistance. When the riot victims form makeshift relief camps, the authorities harass them and try to make them leave. The victims have to struggle for years before the authorities finally provide some compensation for the death, injury and destruction they have suffered. As for the perpetrators of the violence, they get away since the police and the government do not gather evidence, conduct no investigation and appoint biased prosecutors, thereby sabotaging the chances of conviction and punishment.
With some modifications here and there, this is the same sickening script which played out in Gujarat in 2002, when Muslims were the targeted group. On a smaller scale, all victims of organised, targeted violence — be they Tamils in Karnataka or Hindi speakers in Maharashtra or Dalits in Haryana and other parts of the country — know from experience and instinct that they cannot automatically count on the local police coming to their help should they be attacked.
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
MAFIA: Central law to protect journalists on the anvil!
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Published: Thursday, Jun 16, 2011, 21:38 IST / Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI / DNAIndia.
Taking lessons from the murder of investigative journalist J Dey in Mumbai recently, government today said it was planning to bring a central law to protect journalists.
Law minister M Veerappa Moily said that he has already directed the legislative department to prepare a draft bill to protect journalists and their properties, such as cameras.
"Dey's murder is a matter of grave concern. We need to have a sense of security among journalists," he said.
We already have enough criminal laws and one more law is not going to deter the mafia to kill more Journalists.
What we need a strong political will to eradicate the mafia and that is possible only when politicos, bureaucrats, businesses, stop pattronising them.
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Saturday, June 11, 2011
Journalists Killings: Murdered Dey had sought police protection after threatening calls!
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J Dey, a senior investigative journalist who extensively covered underworld and crime for over two decades, was shot dead in broad daylight on Saturday.
In a statement, the Press Club of Mumbai has expressed shock over the killing of the veteran crime journalist.
Dey, Editor-Investigations of Mid-Day, was shot dead in broad daylight at Powai on Saturday by unidentified assailants. Though the motive of the murder is yet to be established, Dey had recently written a series of stories on the adulteration of diesel in Thane and sought police protection after he received threatening calls.
There in Maharastra the greatest Mafia are the politicians and business men while the local Mafia acting only as servants of them!
Dey, Editor-Investigations of Mid-Day, was shot dead in broad daylight at Powai on Saturday by unidentified assailants. Though the motive of the murder is yet to be established, Dey had recently written a series of stories on the adulteration of diesel in Thane and sought police protection after he received threatening calls.
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Sunday, May 22, 2011
WIKILEAKS: Nawaz Sharif too sought U.S. help to protect himself!
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In this 2007 picture, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (centre) prays at the mausoleum in Ghari Khuda Baksh where Benazir Bhutto is buried.
What a pity, even former prime ministers of Pakistan have not sense of security in their own country!
B. Muralidhar Reddy
In this 2007 picture, former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (centre) prays at the mausoleum in Ghari Khuda Baksh where Benazir Bhutto is buried.
NEW DELHI: Shaken by Benazir Bhutto's assassination in December 2007, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had approached the U.S. for advice and technical expertise to ensure his own security.
The request was made about seven weeks before the February 2008 general election ordered by President Pervez Musharraf. Mr. Sharif's appeal came at a juncture when several conspiracy theories were in circulation on Benazir's violent death, including suspicion that elements within the establishment were part of the plot.
Besides the general fears triggered by Benazir's murder, Mr. Sharif had another reason to be worried. The Sharif clan, which went into exile in December 2000 under a pact with General Musharraf, had chosen to return to Pakistan in November 2007 against the wishes of his hosts in Riyadh and the Pakistani government.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Open Letter to Mr. Asaduddin Owaisi on 'Police Protection'!
Dear Mr. Owaisi,
You do not know me, like you wouldn't know hundreds of thousands like me, in this City, in the state and outside; we all like you.
I wish to tell you that many people wept and went without sleep or food for the last Two days, I need not tell you why. And your own near and dear too would have been undergoing the same plight.
It was stated you love your and spend time with them.
They deserve a living father and all other family members would want you alive and so your brother.
As you are a seasoned legislator and public personality, you may have some valid reasons to refuse 'Police Protection', which reasons are beyond the comprehension of the ordinary people who have been voting you time and again nor do they wish to understand them.
The only thing they desire is the safety of you and your family and all your associates.
I earnestly plead with you, "Kindly Do not say no to 'Police Protection' or have some form of 'Trained Protection' to you and to Akbaruddin Bhai!".
Thank you,
Warm Regards,
M. Prabhakar Rao,
[Author of “Mayhem of the Miserables!”]
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P.S.: I have tried to send you an Email on asad.owaisi@sansad.nic.in, which was not functioning, properly and also searched the net for your
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