Beasts in Khaki - Molesting Females in Punjab

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Beasts in Khaki - Molesting Females in Punjab
By SSNews
Oct 8, 2006

 

Females are prone to sexual exploitation in a place like India is a well known fact. Exploitation of vulnerable women by bureaucrats, politicians, policemen and whosoever is in a position to do so is also an open secret. But sexual harassment of women in broad day light by the same police which is supposed to protect their honor is indeed shocking. If all this is done in the presence of the Chief Minister of Punjab; such acts become a shame for Punjab and India.

 

What adds to the shock is that when the public protested and took the matter to the Chief Minister, he is quoted as saying that his police forces did the right thing and such kind of miscreants should be dealt in this manner only.

 

You may think what crime these young females committed which evoked such an inhuman action. Well, these young women (mostly Veterinary doctors) dared to exercise their democratic right of peaceful protest in Punjab during a public meeting in Ludhiana. They were raising slogans demanding jobs which were earlier promised by the government. The police immediately swung into action and while it packed all the male protesters in buses and took them to the police station; the female protesters were left to be dealt later. And the action which the police initiated later is visible in the pictures.

 

A policeman pulling the string of the "Salwar" and doing an act of sexually molestation (Indian Express)

 

The Punjab Government cared two hoots to the public outburst against the criminal action by the Punjab Police. The CM and Punjab Police ignored the concerns of Punjabis and civil society organisations who wrote to him and none of them have a yet received any reply.

 

A policeman with his hands on the breast of a female protestor. (TOI)

 

The National Commission for Women was no different. They still didn't evoked any response or action. The Punjab & Haryana High Court took suo motto action on the basis of the newspaper report and has issued notice of motion to the Punjab Government for October 10, 2006.

 

Subsequently "Punjab State Human Right Commission" also ordered an inquiry. The saddest part of the whole story is that the victims of the incident are too frightened to come out and speak up and this incident has further waned the faith of people in law and justice. The ordinary people have been successfully subdued by a corrupt, insensitive and unaccountable system. The victims and their families are too afraid of Punjab Police and the Punjab Government which is evident by the fact that not a single victim has lodged or initiated any form of complaint. They don't want to talk to the press too lest the fury of the police may unfurl.

 

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http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/india/document.do?id=ENGUSA20060221002
http://carnage84.com
http://sikhcoalition.org/HumanRights.asp
http://ensaaf.org/
http://www.sikhgenocide.org/
http://hrw.org/english/docs/1999/09/30/india1626.htm
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/indiachr/christians8-01.htm#TopOfPage
http://hrw.org/reports/2002/india/
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