Danger from within

Sir,- It somehow seems that Mr. S. Varadan (letter, Aug. 29) is unjustly predilected towards the security personnel. Firstly, police are for the people and not vice-versa. Today thousands of cases of human right violations against the police are filed in courts all over the country; it would be unjust to say that all of those are false. Giving blanket amnesty would be tantamount to losing faith in the judiciary.

The ground reality is that police action works only on common people, and the influential class seems to have immunity from the law. Recent incidents of how a police officer refused to intervene seeing VHP leaders involved in the attack on hapless nuns and how Shiv Sainiks burnt down an hospital in the presence of certain policemen (as seen on television) stand as just witness to the ugly side of the police. The real danger for the country is from inside rather than from outside.

Puneet Sawal,

Chandigarh

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