Ineffectiveness, mistrust and no confidence in governance, police force and judiciary have forced public, up to some extent, to take law and order in their hands. It is just a matter of time when India implodes with public anger and retaliations.

IN INDIA, the police station is the epicentre of crime and judiciary is the epicentre of corruption. Maintaining law and order and providing quick justice is the prime duty of a government. In a typical Third World country government does everything (running buses, trains, planes, ships, banks, insurance companies, grocery shops, cloth shops, schools, colleges, hotels, real state, factories of needles, cement, fertilizer, steel to helicopters, and what not) except what the government is supposed to do.

They take more interest in secondary, tertiary and even undesirable activities probably because these activities open great channels for corrupt money, which in turn used to fund massive election expenses, helicopters on rent, chartered planes and "railas". The uniform of the police and weapons provided to them are rarely used to protect their master, i.e. the people, but are more in use to threaten, harass, and extort from the people and that too with impunity. Any person in the street can tell that they have lesser fear of a criminal compared to the police, not because the police enforce law and order strictly but apparent feeling that there is no gang bigger than that of police in the town. Now after sixty years of independence the situation has become so worse that survival with dignity in India has become a dream for an ordinary person, unless he/she is powerful and influential.


Powerfulness and being influential are derived from the official position; position in police force, administration, judiciary, politics, mafias, big businesses, gangs, etc. And since one ordinary person cannot live with dignity in a typical Third World country, such as India, people tend to be attracted towards a profession which make them powerful and influential, and thus the whole country wants to be police officers, civil bureaucrats, politicians, etc. One can see, without any doubt, that the biggest corporate in almost all Third World countries is nothing but politics and so even the expatriates of the own countries do not trust their own country for entrepreneurship and prefer to do their business abroad.

Now ineffectiveness, mistrust and no confidence in governance, police force and judiciary have forced the public, up to some extent, to take the law and order in their hands and it is just a matter of time when India implodes with public anger and retaliation, if corrective actions are not taken in time. The Government of the last 60 years at the center and judiciary as a whole is the prime culprit in this situation. For any retaliatory crimes, judiciary has only the right to punish any individual, if judiciary is ready to punish hundred times the punishment to itself. Any incident or judgment is valid in space and time coordinates, if our judgment takes infinite time (and infinite money and harassment too), then such judgment makes effectively no sense. In any country justice should not be begged upon but should be awarded.

Expecting effective justice from the Indian judiciary is just living in a fool's paradise. If one seeks justice, one gets so much harassment that his seven generations forget to expect justice from the Indian governmental system and finally finds only two possibilities: tolerate the injustice as destiny or punish the criminal by himself / herself. The current status of India is nothing but anarchy. The hard truth of the Indian system is that if public lynches a police officer or a judge, public enjoys it more than lynching a street criminal. A large number of judges and police officers in India are considered criminals with impunity.
 
We have seen in the recent past the Gujrat riots, Naxalite massacres and so many widespread other unnamed and unorganized cases of lawlessness. The picture is nothing but a countrywide prevailing anarchy. Any person who has any idea of Naxalite affected areas of India, affecting a huge part of India across the multiple states, can visualize that the rule of a Deputy Commissioner runs within a radius of only two and half kilometer from his / her office.

Naxalites collect more revenue, such as ten percent in each government project running in the affected areas through private contractors, than respective governments. Rarely police officers of even higher ranks dare to enter their areas despite having the "boldness" to keep ordinary people under their boots, and even when they enter the affected areas they enter with a massive police force. Anger among people in other areas of India can be seen anywhere and in such extent that a civil war of small scale is already going on throughout India.
 
And certainly when the public take law and order in their hands they take it wildly. What we see in many cases is the judgment of the public, in their own style, according to their own wisdom, of course not so precise and of course the public is not exclusively responsible. Under prevailing circumstances, the judiciary and government must feel remorse for not doing their duty so far. The judiciary and government of the last sixty years at the center deserve a bigger punishment, but who will judge them? Certainly, lawless India is not too far from the verge of implosion.

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