The Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested six people in connection with the hateful slogans that were chanted in Jantar Mantar on August 8, thr...
The Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested six people in connection with the hateful slogans that were chanted in Jantar Mantar on August 8, threatening to massacre Muslims.
The arrests are being seen as an exemplary act by the Delhi Police. Many people were pleasantly surprised and lauded the police for doing the right thing. It only shows how we have lowered the bar as far as our expectations of police intervention are concerned.
It would not be wrong to say that the police took some time to overcome their hesitation to name and act against the accused people – who are from within the ideological spectrum of the ruling party. The police were in a way fighting their own instincts.
After all, the Delhi Police are still resisting the order of a Delhi court to file an FIR in the case of an attack on a Muslim man who was shot in his eyes during last year’s violence in North East Delhi. The same police force has still not been able to identify, let alone book the people who went on a rampage at the city’s Jawaharlal Nehru University last year, attacking and injuring many students and teachers. The faces of the attackers are known. They are still around but the...
