Wednesday 9 April 2008

Paid to protect or to rape?

the title above will explain the two cases below.
an army officer and a police officer-aren't they suppose to protect???
are you guys paid to protect or to rape?

where else the public will go to address their problem if the concerned party is no longer can be trusted?
im not categorising all the officers to be bad but then how to diffrentiate and how to trust?
in both the cases the victims was raped when they seeked the officers for help!!!

lets go thru the cases:

case 1:
Rape case: Army officer identified

Shimla, September 25The local police has identified the Army officer who allegedly raped a 19-year-old tourist two days ago and written to the local station commander to produce the accused before the police for interrogation.
The preliminary investigation carried out by the police indicates that the version of the incident as mentioned in the FIR by the victim is correct. The medical examination of the girl has also confirmed rape. The vaginal swab has been sent for further examination.

The police hoped that the Army authorities will hand over the accused officer for interrogation by the evening.
The girl from Mumbai, who is a daughter of an Air Force officer, landed in trouble as soon as she reached Shimla. The girl who was reportedly emotionally upset, reached here all alone. She contacted the local military control office to find a safe place to stay. An Army Subedar talked to the accused officer, who in turn asked him to drop her at his residence at Longwood.

Instead of helping her in finding a place to stay the officer allegedly raped her.
The ordeal lasted for an hour after which she was again dropped at the station. She contacted the officials of Railway and traffic police and narrated the incident. On their advice she lodged an FIR with the police.
Meanwhile, the father of the girl, who arrived here today, also met the Superintendent of Police.
Further action in the matter will be taken after the interrogation of the officer. The Army personnel, who took the girl to the accused, has already been interrogated. On his statement the police was able to identify the accused.

case 2:
Moral police not moral policing.

A DAYLIGHT rape of a teenager by a policeman and a ban on dancing bars. Last week, on Mumbai's famous Marine Drive, a drunken policeman accosted a teenage girl. He insisted she come into a small, wooden police chowki for questioning, locked the door from inside, and raped her. People passing by heard her desperate screams, banged on the door of the chowki only to be confronted by an unrepentant policeman, brazenly zipping up his trousers and threatening the crowd that had gathered by then.

This incident has enraged people in Mumbai. On the day of the rape, people would have lynched the policeman if his colleagues had not rescued him. The police chowki was smashed.
Subsequently, in a step that defies all comprehension, the police themselves removed the chowki. In effect, they have destroyed vital evidence in the case.

The day after the rape, hundreds of residents stopped traffic and shouted slogans against the Mumbai police. They demanded that the policeman be handed over to them.
While the police have suspended the constable and his superior, charged the former under the criminal law and remanded him to police custody, what has angered people in the city is the attitude of the police. Mumbai's Police Commissioner A.N. Roy pleaded with the media not to paint the entire police force black because of one incident of a deviant policeman. Another senior police officer claimed this was the first such incident and the media should not make too much of it. Surely, these senior people in the police should know that even one such incident requires the police to stop in their tracks and check what is happening in the force. And it is incredible that they would not be aware that the focus on custodial rape was brought about as far back as the mid-1970s by the famous Mathura rape case when two drunken policemen raped a 14-year-old tribal girl in Maharashtra. While the Bombay High Court convicted the policemen, in 1979 the Supreme Court overturned the lower court's judgment on the grounds that there was "no reasonable evidence of guilt on the part of the policemen." The judgment also cast doubts on the character of this minor girl.



such immoral officers should be punished severely so that it will be a reminder for others to commit such a disgusting act in future!
public should be more careful while addressing your problems to police or seeking help from them.
avoid meeting them alone.there should be a lady officer in each police stations to avoid men officers to handling women cases,im not being a female pro here but it will be more comfortable and safe if a lady officer handles women cases.
besides a qualification,a public servant has to own humanity and moral-it determines the safety of the country.



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