Human Rights ?
Whatever happened to it , I wonder.I was watching some of the news channels this morning. This issue caught my attention :
A jewel thief in Bhagalpur in Bihar caught red handed while attempting to snatch a woman's chain was mobbed by the public. The video footage showed images of the thief being beaten up by the public , flogged with a belt , later his hands tied , he was tied to a motorcycle which was driven by a policeman !!!
Catch more of it here : http://broadband.indiatimes.com/videoshow/2316913.cms
So the news channel went on to say that the National Human Rights Comission is investigating into the issue and that the thief is in hospital. The local political parties meanwhile ,have made this a political issue. I beleive two policemen have been suspended. The opposition has called this a communal issue. They are blaming Nitish Kumar for the incident.They have also brought out casteism into this - the thief was a muslim !!
By flashing the same video time and again on every news channel , Iam wondering what it is that they are trying to acheive. Ok , it was wrong that the Public and Police treated him that way. But for heaven's sake , this is Bihar and we are talking about someone who snatched a chain (Isnt that robbery? - Section 397 of IPC ?)
And in all this hullaboo - what happened to the robber ? Is he alive / dead ?
Weird world, truly !
posted by Vidya Rajaram @ 8/29/2007 08:50:00 AM
2 Comments:
Hi,
"Human Beings are born to make mistakes" No one is 100% in this world, so treating a theif like this is very bad. Sure he did the mistake and he have to get punishment (by law) for this but not like, what the public and Police did with him.
Rajesh - I agree with you. But what I dont understand is the undue publicity this event got
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