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EARLY SIGNS OF A VIOLENT MINDSET
By Hiranmay Karlekar
Op-Ed
The Pioneer
http://www.dailypioneer.com
Thursday, June 6, 2013
It is wrong to believe that brutality towards animals has
a limited fall-out. Police indifference to crimes against
animals has grave implications for society
Three examples from Vadodara, Mumbai and Delhi
respectively underline how the response of the police in
India leaves much to be desired in cases of crimes
against animals. In the first, an utterly friendly and
docile community dog, Rheo, was repeatedly and savagely
hit on the head with sticks while it was sleeping inside
a building called Race Course Towers. In excruciating
pain and trauma, he bit a shopkeeper as he fled. The
pursuing mob continued to batter him until he finally
managed to disappear. Brought to a veterinary hospital
later, he was declared dead on arrival as a result of
brain haemorrhage.
A complaint was lodged with Gotri Police Station on May
28. The police did register it and arrested four persons
on June 3 after Ms Maneka Gandhi's intervention. All the
four, however, were released on bail by the evening as
the offences they were charged with were bailable. The
complainant, Ms Hansa Roy, an animal rights activist who
has done wonders for Vadodara's stray dogs, is now
apprehensive of her own and her family's safety as one of
the accused has threatened her. Moreover, arresting a
culprit is only the beginning. Much depends on how a case
is investigated, constructed and argued. What happens
now, therefore, needs to be closely watched.
The same goes for the second incident, which occurred on
Inlaks Hospital Road, Chembur, Mumbai, early on May 25
morning when three men attacked a harmless stray dog, and
killed it by stabbing it repeatedly and hitting it with a
stone. Another dog, Tiger, owned by a local resident,
Kumar Chetty, was also attacked, but managed to escape.
A part of the attack was caught on CCTV cameras mounted
outside Mr Chetty's home, which clearly showed what had
happened. The Mumbai Mirror reported on May 27 that Mr
Chetty went to the Chembur police station to register a
complaint; the personnel there refused to do so citing
political pressure. They finally registered it on May 25
night after intervention by activists of the
organisation, In Defence of Animals.
Two of the three accused persons � Sham and Sunny � were
arrested on May 25 night but were bailed out on May 26
for `10,000 each. The third accused had yet to be
arrested at the time of writing. The question remains as
to how seriously the police will pursue the case. The
Chairman, Animal Welfare Board of India, Maj-Gen RM Kharb
(Retd), has officially written to the Commissioner of
Police, Mumbai, urging effective action and it will be a
scandal if the guilty still go scot free.
Whatever it is, some preliminary action has been taken in
Vadodara and Mumbai. Unfortunately, no action whatever
seems to have been taken in respect of regular and
merciless beating of stray dogs by security guards in
Pragati Vihar Hostel, where Central Government officials
live, in the heart of the nation's capital, New Delhi.
Despite a complaint having been registered with the Lodhi
Colony Police Station as early as February 19, 2013, the
beatings continue in blatant violation of the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals Act of 1960, and Ms Dipanwita
Majumdar and her son Rahul, who feed and care for the
dogs, wage a lonely battle .
When talking about the indifference and worse of police
in India toward punishable crimes against animals, one
often faces the question: What should receive priority?
Crimes against humans or animals? In their paper, �From
Animal Cruelty to Serial Murder: Applying the Graduation
Hypothesis�, Jeremy Wright and Christopher Hensley write
in The International Journal of Offender Therapy and
Comparative Criminology: �Since the late 1970s, the FBI
has considered animal cruelty to be a positive indicator
of future serial murder�.
In �Childhood Cruelty to Animals and Subsequent Violence
against Humans�, in a different issue of the same
prestigious journal, Linda Merz-Perez, Kathleen M Heide
and Ira J Silverstone, write, �Offenders who committed
violent crimes as adults were significantly more likely
than adult non-violent offenders as children to have
committed acts of cruelty against animals in general and
pets and stray animals in particular.� It is animals
today; it will be humans tomorrow.
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By Hiranmay Karlekar
Op-Ed
The Pioneer
http://www.dailypioneer.com
Thursday, June 6, 2013
It is wrong to believe that brutality towards animals has
a limited fall-out. Police indifference to crimes against
animals has grave implications for society
Three examples from Vadodara, Mumbai and Delhi
respectively underline how the response of the police in
India leaves much to be desired in cases of crimes
against animals. In the first, an utterly friendly and
docile community dog, Rheo, was repeatedly and savagely
hit on the head with sticks while it was sleeping inside
a building called Race Course Towers. In excruciating
pain and trauma, he bit a shopkeeper as he fled. The
pursuing mob continued to batter him until he finally
managed to disappear. Brought to a veterinary hospital
later, he was declared dead on arrival as a result of
brain haemorrhage.
A complaint was lodged with Gotri Police Station on May
28. The police did register it and arrested four persons
on June 3 after Ms Maneka Gandhi's intervention. All the
four, however, were released on bail by the evening as
the offences they were charged with were bailable. The
complainant, Ms Hansa Roy, an animal rights activist who
has done wonders for Vadodara's stray dogs, is now
apprehensive of her own and her family's safety as one of
the accused has threatened her. Moreover, arresting a
culprit is only the beginning. Much depends on how a case
is investigated, constructed and argued. What happens
now, therefore, needs to be closely watched.
The same goes for the second incident, which occurred on
Inlaks Hospital Road, Chembur, Mumbai, early on May 25
morning when three men attacked a harmless stray dog, and
killed it by stabbing it repeatedly and hitting it with a
stone. Another dog, Tiger, owned by a local resident,
Kumar Chetty, was also attacked, but managed to escape.
A part of the attack was caught on CCTV cameras mounted
outside Mr Chetty's home, which clearly showed what had
happened. The Mumbai Mirror reported on May 27 that Mr
Chetty went to the Chembur police station to register a
complaint; the personnel there refused to do so citing
political pressure. They finally registered it on May 25
night after intervention by activists of the
organisation, In Defence of Animals.
Two of the three accused persons � Sham and Sunny � were
arrested on May 25 night but were bailed out on May 26
for `10,000 each. The third accused had yet to be
arrested at the time of writing. The question remains as
to how seriously the police will pursue the case. The
Chairman, Animal Welfare Board of India, Maj-Gen RM Kharb
(Retd), has officially written to the Commissioner of
Police, Mumbai, urging effective action and it will be a
scandal if the guilty still go scot free.
Whatever it is, some preliminary action has been taken in
Vadodara and Mumbai. Unfortunately, no action whatever
seems to have been taken in respect of regular and
merciless beating of stray dogs by security guards in
Pragati Vihar Hostel, where Central Government officials
live, in the heart of the nation's capital, New Delhi.
Despite a complaint having been registered with the Lodhi
Colony Police Station as early as February 19, 2013, the
beatings continue in blatant violation of the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals Act of 1960, and Ms Dipanwita
Majumdar and her son Rahul, who feed and care for the
dogs, wage a lonely battle .
When talking about the indifference and worse of police
in India toward punishable crimes against animals, one
often faces the question: What should receive priority?
Crimes against humans or animals? In their paper, �From
Animal Cruelty to Serial Murder: Applying the Graduation
Hypothesis�, Jeremy Wright and Christopher Hensley write
in The International Journal of Offender Therapy and
Comparative Criminology: �Since the late 1970s, the FBI
has considered animal cruelty to be a positive indicator
of future serial murder�.
In �Childhood Cruelty to Animals and Subsequent Violence
against Humans�, in a different issue of the same
prestigious journal, Linda Merz-Perez, Kathleen M Heide
and Ira J Silverstone, write, �Offenders who committed
violent crimes as adults were significantly more likely
than adult non-violent offenders as children to have
committed acts of cruelty against animals in general and
pets and stray animals in particular.� It is animals
today; it will be humans tomorrow.
Continues at:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/oped/early-signs-of-a-violent-mindset.html
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj
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o Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used
for the educational purposes of research and open
discussion. The contents of this post may not have been
authored by, and do not necessarily represent the opinion
of the poster. The contents are protected by copyright
law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
o If you send private e-mail to me, it will likely
not be read, considered or answered if it does not
contain your full legal name, current e-mail and postal
addresses, and live-voice telephone number.
o Posted for information and discussion. Views
expressed by others are not necessarily those of the
poster who may or may not have read the article.
FAIR USE NOTICE: This article may contain copyrighted
material the use of which may or may not have been
specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This
material is being made available in efforts to advance
the understanding of environmental, political, human
rights, economic, democratic, scientific, social, and
cultural, etc., issues. It is believed that this
constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material
as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the
material on this site is distributed without profit to
those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving
the included information for research, comment,
discussion and educational purposes by subscribing to
USENET newsgroups or visiting web sites. For more
information go to:
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If you wish to use copyrighted material from this article
for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you
must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
Since newsgroup posts are being removed by forgery by one
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