As per the law, all female street dogs have to be sterilised and injected with anti-rabies vaccination and allowed to live their life. However, it is doubtful if anyone in the government, including the veterinary surgeons would be happy to do this. Every official in Kerala, including Trivandrum, are bothered about their 'respect'. To see how a veterinay doctor would react to a phone call from a member of a public, one just has to try it. In most cases, the first query would be if the member of the public has extended adequate 'respect' to these public paid public servants.
Another thing is the issue of compelsory licence for the dogs. Well, it will be just another option for bribery and corruption. Moreover, a dog owner would be forced to concede 'respect' and bowing to the government officials concerned.
As to the expense expected for the sterilisation of the street dogs, all that is requried would be the dismissal of a few government officials. Mind you, their pay starts from the peon's 10,000 plus perks to an senior IAS officer's 125000 plus perks for 13 months a year. And a huge number of idling-away guys who get a royal pension till they die, just because they had worked in the government serivice.
As to the Sub Inspector, who manhandled the woman, well, what should be done to his hands? Imagine what his hands must have done to the local people here. He would make persons convert into terrorism. Did he use the words like Nee, Edi, Aval etc. to the foreign visitor? Well, these are words he would be liberally using to the free people of this 'independant' nation, that received 'freedom' in 1947.
-- Edited by Ved on Thursday 17th of December 2009 03:04:18 PM
The TV camera man is an idiot. This words: The TV actress is smarting because the police had asked her to stop.
Obviously that is not the issue, but this idiot doesnt have the courtesy to focus on the real issue.
The issue is that the police (possibly female) constable used the words Edi and such.
However, the actress's retort is 'How can you use such a word to a woman? Who gave you this right?'
The actress is also going to a wrong focus. There is no law that insulting words can be used to men and not to women. This is a general trend all over India now. The actual fact is that no Indian policeman has the right to use such words to the natives of this place. But the people also are of a very negative type. They enjoy the spectacle of another person being abused by the police.
As to the police personnel, it is not clear how these ugly looking, illiterate guys, fit of menail work got posted as policemen. Policemen should be persons who are from the high quality group, and not from the waste type of persons.
As to the actress insisting that she would take the car to the policestation herself, well, looking at the police personnel, it sure is a good thing. The female constable as well as the male one, certainly do not seem to be agreeable company. Anyone would love to enforce apartheidon them.
What would be interesting to know is how the actress is treated at the policestation. It is possible that she has connections to persons in the higher echelons of the bureaucracy, police or political circles. If not, this lady is a very brave woman indeed.
As to the question that she asked as to who gave the police the right to use such words to the natives of this place such words, as Nee, edi, eda etc., the answer can be: Gandhi. He was the guy who used such words to the natives here, and had the natives use higher words towards him.
There was a Bhagat Singh who was reputed to be courageous because he shot a British policeman (a person who doesn't know to use any of these words). Would he have the same bravary to correct the current day Indian police, and force them to treat the locals here honorably? It is doubtful!
As to the IPS officers, who are supposed to bring in quality to the police behaviour, do they themselves know in what manner the police should deal with the people? It is again doubtful! A cursory glance at the Indian Civil Service Main Question paper would prove it.
In India, policemen come from a low class group of persons (same is the case of the Indian bureaucracy). They do not have any idea as to what is the correct manner of case investigation. The accused, innocent or otherwise, is brutally slapped, beaten on the head, kicked in the groin, poked with sharp instruments, pulled with sharp hooks, and even given a burn treatment.
Moreover, these low level guys enjoy the chance to enforce their power over others. They basically come intellectually from the groups that are fit for low level cleaning work. Police investigation and associated powers should be in the hands of high quality people.
Any man who onces come into contact with a bureaucrat or a policeman, if he not from the well connected groups, will turn into a terrorist over here. That is the truth.
