Bangalore Police Unleashes Violence
NDTV had a report showing around ten police personals beating a lonely guy on the streets. Now, I do understand that you need to be firm when dealing with rioters, but we are not talking about police trying to disperse a mob; rather what we see here is a bunch of policemen brutally attacking a single guy on the roads.
Click here to see the footage. The complete NDTV report can be found here. Footage Courtesy: NDTV
While the report exposes the police excessiveness and brutality, Mr. N Achyut Rao (Police Commissioner, Bangalore) had this to say:
This could be either false or imaginary. There cannot be an atrocity on the (part of the) police….. This could only be to quell the rioting mobs (that) one has to be firm…
Well dear commissioner, are you saying that a lonely guy on the streets was “the rioting mobs”? Ah, now that’s a good joke.
Incidentally, the one person killed in police firing was a 12 year old boy - Fazil (May his soul rest in peace). While it’s not impossible, I don’t think it’s probable that a 12 year old was part of the rioting mobs. So essentially we have our police force brutally attacking and butchering innocent people in the name of maintaining law and order.
Posted under: City Life/Bangalore/Uncategorized
Tagged with: Bangalore, brutality, excessiveness, police
January 23rd, 2007 at 14:18:11
The strange thing is it was expected that violence will happen but no real police cover or precautionary steps happened.
January 24th, 2007 at 23:35:46
Well, you know our police force. Very incompetent and lethargic. And when its time for showdown, they end up doing shit like this. I don’t have faith in our police, and I guess this incident will only further it.
January 26th, 2007 at 23:34:10
Do not keep blaming the police -they did maintain law and order fairly well. Even a kilometer from the center of violence, all was calm. Many policement were themselves injured in the violence-some were attacked with chili powder and knives. NDTV is only interested in fanning the flames and their news reports were highly sensationalised. Sadly, this kind of reporting leads to ppl like Slim losing faith in the police
January 27th, 2007 at 13:19:42
Apun, I think violence was anticipated. The fact that there were no precautionary measures despite this beats me…
Slim, unfortunately you are correct. Not to say that everyone is incompetent, just that overall the police force gives the impression of being incompetent.
Anil, I don’t think NDTV was trying to sensationalize the reporting. Neither do I say that policemen were not attacked. That said, the clip very clearly shows a bunch a policemen brutally attacking a single guy on the streets. Now, please don’t tell me that the 10+ police persons present there were having trouble arresting him (if he was involved in a mob) and had to start attacking him brutally as this. Unfortunately, our police force (most of India, not just Karnataka) seems to think that human rights are things that they don’t need to conceen themselves with. Remember the Honda strike in July 2005?
January 28th, 2007 at 11:21:01
Yes Sajith, you put it better than me. The overall impression of the police force seems incompetent.
Anil, I do agree the media tends to sensationalize news to get high TRP’s. But I had lost faith in our system, especially the police force a long time ago. It doesn’t take a sensational media news for people to lose faith on our police force.