As Mr Colin Gonsalves writes in the DNA Opinion about Police ruthlessness in India. He takes up the recent Supreme Court observation in September 2006 that the police needs to be freed from the political influence in order to become more humane. These observationon are made on the findings of Government appointed committees and like most official committees these findings are biased in favor of the police. The police in India has morphed into an organization which believes it has infinitesimal powers. This can be guaged from the fact that the police in Punjab could get away with murder literally. Thousands were killed in Punjab and without any political pressure (there was no elected Government for the most part). The police in India has become like a self sustaining bureaucratic organization which has its own internal power dynamics. Not that it is not used as a political tool but it has its own agendas and the primary agenda is to keep its power dominions intact. They have their own personal armies funded by secret police funds used ostensibly for national security and without any provisions for public scrutiny. Anything that is beyond probe is more likely to feed corruption and tyranny. What the Supreme Court needs to focus on and ask the Government is to not only constitute independent investigative agencies into these surreptious activities but also to completely restructure the organization.
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