The escape of three dreaded terrorists under police escort from a hospital in Delhi, and dancing police officers in an underworld don's party in Mumbai are enough to expose the police who always claim to remain on alert. Even if the police were not hand-in-glove in the escape of Pakistani terrorists who had served sentence for bomb explosion, it is such carelessness that exposed Delhi Police, which claim to be the most capable in the country.
When the country's big cities are on the hit list of terrorists, and the Home Ministry issues alert against such threats from time-to-time, it is really shameful to make such a big mistake. The home minister has also publicly stated that if there has not been any big terrorist attack in the country after 26 November 2008, it should be considered the country's good fortune. This means that even Home Minister P. Chidambaram admits that if terrorists decide to attack, it would not be easy to stop them.
When the country's big cities are on the hit list of terrorists, and the Home Ministry issues alert against such threats from time-to-time, it is really shameful to make such a big mistake. The home minister has also publicly stated that if there has not been any big terrorist attack in the country after 26 November 2008, it should be considered the country's good fortune. This means that even Home Minister P. Chidambaram admits that if terrorists decide to attack, it would not be easy to stop them.
Utter Carelessness
Despite deaths of thousands of innocents in terrorist attacks in the last 30 years, how could the common man trust Delhi Police after such utter carelessness? And why should he? If there has not been another terrorist attack in the United States after the 9/11, it should be considered more as success of US police, rather than terrorist failure. It is not that terrorists are only trying to target India. Terrorists have not given up their intentions of destroying the United States, but the police, intelligence network, and the Defense Ministry there are so alert that in spite of wanting to, terrorists are unable to succeed.
After the escape of three terrorists, the Delhi Police, as usual, are trying to cover up the matter in its defense, but the government should take tough steps in this matter and should not hesitate to take strong action against the guilty police officers. After all, it is a matter linked to the country's security and adopting lax attitude in it is not going to be in anybody's interest. This was an incident of carelessness. The dancing of police officers in a party thrown by an underworld don is an even more serious matter. This is an open example of the nexus that exists between the police and dangerous criminals.
Lack of Evidence
Just imagine, what would have happened had this matter not been exposed in media? Nexus between the underworld and police officers is talked about from time-to-time, but the faces of such treacherous police officers remain unexposed for lack of evidence.
Now the matter is quite clear. Simply suspending such police officers is not going to break this nexus. Such nexus should be probed deeply and the guilty should receive such severe punishment that no other police officer dares to insult his uniform in this manner. If police officers who are paid to put dangerous criminals behind bars start saving them, who would then catch criminals?
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