The appalling situation of the police in Bangalore. Until recently, things like the police being inept and incompetent were news that I heard from others. All of this changed yesterday when I was subject to a very unpleasant encounter with the police.
I was returning home from office and was on my usual route. Close to home, a police jeep comes on the wrong side of the road and blocks my way and starts abusing me that I was on the way. I have been living in this locality for the past 15 years and this road was never a one way. The exchange got a little heated and the constable started hurling abusive language at me. I laughed it off and headed home. As was going I realized that the behavior of the constable was unacceptable and something needs to be done about it. I turned around and headed back to the police station to make a complaint. What followed was shocking.
The inspector incharge (S S Kashi) accused me of being arrogant and instead of making a note, registered a complaint against me for obstruction of justice. While I refused to sign on the written document given by him, he threatened me that if I did not comply, he would arrest me. The irony of the whole episode was that even Mr Kashi was foulmouthed and just as guilty as his constable.
The whole episode makes me ponder on one question "Who polices the police?"
I was returning home from office and was on my usual route. Close to home, a police jeep comes on the wrong side of the road and blocks my way and starts abusing me that I was on the way. I have been living in this locality for the past 15 years and this road was never a one way. The exchange got a little heated and the constable started hurling abusive language at me. I laughed it off and headed home. As was going I realized that the behavior of the constable was unacceptable and something needs to be done about it. I turned around and headed back to the police station to make a complaint. What followed was shocking.
The inspector incharge (S S Kashi) accused me of being arrogant and instead of making a note, registered a complaint against me for obstruction of justice. While I refused to sign on the written document given by him, he threatened me that if I did not comply, he would arrest me. The irony of the whole episode was that even Mr Kashi was foulmouthed and just as guilty as his constable.
The whole episode makes me ponder on one question "Who polices the police?"
