A panel discussion with Arti Jaiman of Gurgaon Ki Awaz Samudayik Radio, transgender activist Laxmi N. Tripathi, retired IPS officer Prakash Singh, retired IFS officer Deepa Gopal...
For a force trained to follow orders, even those given with scant regard to the letter of the Constitution, it is perhaps not entirely wrong to blame the political masters for the atrocities the police frequently unleash on those who dare to question government policy.
The violence on Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus on Sunday evening and the alleged police inaction against the perpetrators, who rampaged through the campus and beat students, has once again raised many a question on the police force.
'In my community, there are thousands of Nirbhayas. You can’t even imagine the way they are raped and killed,' Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, trans rights activist said.
Indian Police are stuck in the colonial mould. They need autonomy from state governments, extensive structural reforms and better working conditions, writes ex top-cop Prakash Singh
