Cops – To Protect or to destroy?

Chennai, (Oct 19). Yesterday I happened to go to T.Nagar for getting a few copied of my photos. It was Diwali time, and the crowded market appeared like gaiety land. Everyone were happy purchasing new clothes for Diwali. There were a few people who returned home sadly. I was one among them

As was piercing through the evening traffic on Mount Poonamallee Road (near Butt Road McRennet 09:15 pm), a man with a handle-bar mush pierced my bike with a cane. I was driving my vehicle in second shift in half-clutch depressed state. I was driving at a dead slow speed not more than 15 km/h. I was well in the left side of the road. As, I stared at him, he inflicted one more blow on my head with his "lathi". I just bent my head at the right time. The "lathi" just touched and rested on my backpack. The second blow was as powerful as the first one. Thank God, I escaped.

Then I drove a little ahead and looked back. There some men were stand near a jeep. Now I recognized that it was police. One of the men over there yelled : "Oodi… poda… Thirubi pakatha". I asked for a charge sheet. That cop again raised his lathi. People around there urged me to move away. Considering my safety I drove to my home. All of the cops were not in uniform. I felt nothing was legal.

I still don’t understand why that guy inflicted a blow on me. This was very hard to take as I don’t know the reason. At that slow speed, he would have very well asked me to stop. May be he could have fined me, if I had not obeyed the traffic rules. He neither spoke a word, nor listened to me. What a barbarism!

Had he been a guy other than a police, I would have definitely taken revenge on him. As he was a cop, it was beyond my capacity and control. Either I should know a big-shot or I should be a big-shot to get justice. This was the most common comment that I hear, when I tell it to any of my friends. The only other option that’s left for me is to publish this as a blog. May be, if there is a reporter to listen to me (without asking for evidence) I can do so. The fact remains that I cannot really get the justice. For a long time I ‘ve been a patriot of India. Now its been questioned? Why I should be patriotic anymore? I know this is not a logically correct decision, as I took it based on a single incident. But its more of emotion than of rationalism.

One of my friends (Rakesh) told that, often these incidents could be accounted for the darker side of "Human Mind". Some people see happiness through the sorrow of others (so called sadist). Other factor is that, people who are treated inferiors much often try to impress their power upon others. Or the constable was under the influence of alcohol. This is what I feel was the whole motive behind the cop’s irrational, unethical & inhuman attack.

Cant these things be prevented at all. I feel it can be prevented if there are well laid laws, on when a cop can attack a person. There should be avenues wherein a commoner like me can file suit against such atrocities committed by the cops. But, even in a place like UK where these laws are in play such incidents occur (Menezes Case). So the only way is that people should understand humanitarian values, try to treat everyone in parity, give everyone respect. Had his senior officials treated the cop with respect, I feel he might not have acted brutally.

Its easy to destroy something, u should understand the pains of creating it. And, in a society no one has the rights to destroy other person’s property.

Just wanted to ooze out my feeling… Gud Day!!!