Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Inhuman(?) face of Police

For last 2 days all the news channel are telecasting a news of inhuman treatment of mob and 2 policemen in Bhagalpur to a criminal. What they are showing is really makes one feel sad or sometimes fills your heart with disgust.
But there are some other aspects as well. First of all this is not a unique instance. I believe many of us has seen or heard about beating badly to any thief caught red handed.Also, The person involved was a criminal and he was not doing it for the first time. But the way media is projecting the whole issue looks like people are beating some saint person.
Also i feel bad about the heading of the news "Brutal Bihar". Just few days back, Nithari was exposed. Why didn't Ndtv made the headline as "Rapist and murderer NCR/Delhi/UP"? when bomb blast happens in Hyd, Why didn't they say "Terrorist AP/Hyd"?
If just one incidence makes whole Bihar Brutal then may i know a single place in the world which is not barbaric?
Just few years back, similar incidents (snatching of chains) used to happen a lot in my own colony in Patna. People esp. ladies were very much afraid and almost stopped wearing any kind of jewelry. When no one got caught for few months, the looters became so bold that they started doing it even in day time. And then a new sub-inspector got posted in our area. After getting the information about these incidences he started visiting the colony and beat people (esp. young) ,who were not from our colony and could not tell why they had come there, like anything. Sometime he would take them to police station but most of the time he would finish all "FIR,Mukadama, Sunwaayi, and Saja" by himself on the spot. No need to say that within 2 weeks all goons were gone. Now it's a long time i have about any such incidents. Should i shout/cry "faul" because that person didn't follow the "rule of law"?
No one should praise these kind of acts but also you should ask people of those area how and what they feel about the same incident?
And above all, If they feel so bad, why didn't he(the person/reporter who shot this video) try to save the guy? Why didn't he raised the question when this incident was taking place? Why didn't he went to the police man and told him what he was telling it afterwards? Was this not his duty? All duties are there to followed by policemen only.. you r there just to shoot and make masaala clip...

I always feel so awkward when i find that media slams police men when they do anything wrong. They will not let anyone sleep for many days But no one writes a single line when they are killed, brutally beaten by mob, naxalites or terrorists. For example, just few months back i was hearing a debate on NDTV about killing of Dogs in Banglore. I felt like killing all those useless fellows because it was the day when 21 policemen/CRPF Jawans were killed by Naxalites in Orissa. I don't know if by telecasting that debate they were trying to show that life of a mad dog is more important than a police man in India.

Manoj

4 comments:

Ravi Mishra said...

It is not the news, it is the "masala" which makes the news business run.

I fully agree with your article, and hence any news channel is obsessed with masala.

For example, any news channel will show any small thing, like rain water in Amitabh Bacchan house, whereas there is minimal coverage of floods in Bihar where hundreds have died and millions have suffered some form of damage, and more importantly there will be not be any coverage on post flood recovery and preventive efforts for the next year flood.

With Bombay floods, news channels were obsessed with it, having daily coverage for almost one month. Why not for Bihar and other states floods.

Ravi
http://hivcare.blogspot.com/

chandan said...

Media is losing creditibility.They are repeditely shooting themselves in their feet. And they will self destruct.

Thanks for your encouraging words( on biharflood relief blog).
cheers,
chandan.

TV said...

Completely agree with you. Media, specially the English media of India, has refined the art of making money by denigrating Bihar. It is disgusting.

Manoj said...

Thanks Raviji, Chandan and TV ji for ur comments.
One thing i am not able to decide is now when we know the problem, what can be done to solve it?
Chandan ji is doing his best which is really admirable.
I also visited Ravi ji's blog, it's a definitely a nice effort.
What to say about TV ji, i had read so many articles about Bihar written by you. It feels good when i saw ur comments on my blog.

Manoj