Book Review : Decriminalizing the victims, Book Review by G.S.Sood in GFilesIndia.com on June 5 2016

 THE facts contained in the book may have faded out of the memory of most since it is based on the events that author revisited after a gap of more than a decade of his 20 years (1983-2003) association at senior level with government of India as frontline operation officer as an Officer Commanding on Internal security duty in field to policy making and planning in Vigilance and Counter Intelligence. But as the saying goes that ‘those who forget the history are condemned to repeat it’, the book is a must read especially for those manning the current establishment since the onus now lies on Modi Government to correct the grave misdeeds committed by the previous regime knowingly or unknowingly to remain in power.

Also, in a state of falsehood where police and judiciary are turned into coercive arms of the state to perpetrate organised violence with deluge of disinformation to give legitimacy to state tyranny through its planted operations on the pretext of preserving unity and territorial integrity of the nation, it becomes impossible for independent scholars to have access to reliable and authentic data (that author as an insider provides) on chain of such critical events that help India sustain its proxy war against its civil society and persistent criminal acts of state agencies in India. On one count, the author concludes that police in every state of India is one of the most hated and feared organisation by the public due to its predatory work culture. Public in general do not trust the police its corruption and criminalization.

The author has given an illustrative account of how the “Executive pillar of democracy, manned by dumb babus of IAS/IPS without any domain expertise, devoid of problem solving aptitude and organising abilities appointed for being pliable with criminal propensities, blind obedience and loyalty to enlightened political terrorists in position of power doomed the public of this republic. He illustrates with evidences as to how theory of ‘Controlled Chaos’ evolved by evil political genius with sponsored acts of terrorism through its rogue intelligence and security agencies was mistaken to belief that it would ensure their continuity in power and invariably lead to uncontrolled events in politics.

He writes that if India will ever disintegrate, it will be due to the excesses of its existing colonial police work culture and security forces. Country is all about its people, rest is all theory and vested interests wrapped in piece of cloth handed over to bunch of thugs in special costumes, who march in rank and file, for nothing but their livelihood and brand it as “Nationalism”. It’s time to redefine the “Nationalism” and make each and every anti people state functionary accountable for his acts of treason against the people and the country.

Discussing the role of army in democracies, the author observes that Indian Army and paramilitary forces will keep failing as long as they will keep meddling in internal political affairs of the country and themselves to be used by divisive political leadership against own countrymen and will be doomed, the day they will be pitted against external aggression. They will have to protect on two fronts, their internal front of alienated masses who have been their victims since last 68 years and the adversary.

He says that if a corrupt political government enacts the laws of lawlessness to criminalise and disintegrate a political movement of civic sovereignty, it becomes the moral responsibility of democratically elected popular political government to decriminalise the victims and not only provide them relief but to honor their sacrifices and compensate them for the hardships these victims endured.( Mr.G.S.Sood The author is retired as Professor from the University of Delhi in 2024. He is an alumnus of IIM Indore and holds a PhD from the Delhi School of Economics. An investor activist and former member of various SEBI committees. He taught Capital Markets and Investment Banking at leading business schools of India.)

Are rogues of IPS responsible for spiraling crime, corruption and insurgencies in India

 Congratulations Mr. Gajendra Singh Chaudhary.(Does India Need IPS headed Policing) It is for the first time in the history of post British India that I am reading an article that has been written to address an issue that forms the backbone of spiraling crime and corruption and criminalization of the police in post British India. During British era police in India was brutal but certainly not criminalized and violating the principle of “Due process”.

In the post British India, the phenomenon of encounter specialist cops doing cold blooded murders in the streets, is all creation of rogue minds of IPS, who see power not as medium of “service” but “dominance & Authority”, rather in true sense if we compare them with street criminals of violent crimes and extortion, police will be found to be doing the same acts with complete impunity and protection of these very rogue IPS. Criminalization and corruption in police is all due to lack of integrity among IPS, who wield absolute authority without any direct accountability, and you will find vast majority of them suffering from authoritarian and dominance tendencies for lacking professionalism.

I had written to UPSC, as to how they check the aptitude for candidates of IPS and they replied there is no specific test designed to identify such an aptitude needed specifically to be police officer, but there after they introduced one and prospective candidates of UPSC had gone on strike outside Dholpur House.

Police in Indian states has graduated to organized criminal acts that are covered on live TV to eliminate the controversial goons and politicians. All the credit goes to elitist and glorified IPS for criminalization of police. The murder of Atiq Ahmed was live telecast with complete police patronage. The Gill era in Punjab with thousands of cold blooded murders in fake encounters is testimony to the trait of authoritarianism that created millionaire cops and it continues and spread across India.

Everyone cannot become a police officer. One needs to have aptitude and Turning an individual into a professional police officer is highly transformative and comprehensive process and involves time duration to enable an individual to pick up the nuances of the profession.

‪But the intake system in the police in India is totally retrograde to this aspect. The officers of IPS remain devoid of practical experience and acquire superfluous experience in limited periods as mere fomality. And instead of taking professional policing decisions, they take political decisions, resorting to shortcuts for instant results and in turn they transform the complete policing into the gang of criminals as was described by Justice Anand Narain Mulla of the Allahabad High Court who had once famously remarked that “there is not a single lawless group in the whole of the country whose record of crime comes anywhere near the record of that organised unit which is known as the police in India".

‪I remember I had written a letter to commissioner Delhi Police on the suspension of an SHO and at that time, I mentioned to him that the IPS are nothing but “Chair force” and always pitted against “ police force”.

‪I am happy that professionals like Mr. Chaudhary have began taking interest on this aspect of governance and now there can be hope that police reforms may begin in the right direction, the kind of Reforms that need to take place from the perspective of the citizens of post British India. The IPS deputation to Central armed police forces need to immediately stop since they remain devoid of practical operational and administrative experience In these forces at the grass roots, no training, capsule or academic degree can substitute the practical operational and administrative experience.

Police personnel in every Indian state are trained like infantry combatants, same story goes for the Central police Forces.

It is the police working that provokes conflict, escalates it and turns it into full blown insurgency, all due to incompetent and unprofessional IPS heading the state police organizations and when similar incompetent lot is allowed to throng the Central police organizations too, Indians rot in the simmering heat of conflicts and insurgencies.

Police system in India needs complete radical overhaul with restructuring, retraining and demilitarization and decentralization with a paradigm shift from current intake system of IPS.

Beyond the Line of Control: A Life Lived on the Frontiers of Duty and Dissent

 

 

Guarding the frontiers against hostile enemies and unfriendly neighbors is no ordinary duty, a relentless test of courage, endurance, and sheer willpower. It demands men and women who can withstand killing loneliness, months of separation from their families, and the crushing silence of landscapes untouched by human life.

In these remote outposts, where the freezing howling wind itself feels like an enemy and resources are painfully scarce, survival is an art learned the hard way. Improvisation becomes instinct, deception becomes armor, and every breath is taken with the knowledge that the next could be your last.

On a routine patrol—if anything here can ever be called routine—every step is a gamble. A drifted landmine could be sleeping beneath thick foliage or buried silently under layers of snow, waiting for an unlucky boot to trigger its fury. An enemy sniper could be lying still for hours, camouflaged in shadows, making death only a heartbeat and a bullet away for any member of the patrol.

Those who face these hazards not occasionally but as a way of life—day after day, night after night—cannot be ordinary people. They are forged in isolation, hardened by danger, and sustained by a sense of duty that defies explanation. Every moment on these borders is a battle for survival, every second an act of defiance against a war that never truly ends.

 They live where nothing reigns but fear—and yet they stand.

A Soldier is Forged by Contradictions

This story revolves around a man born into contradiction and built for conflict—an armed forces officer recruited as a police officer, trained as an infantry combatant, and deployed as a peacekeeper in a nation spiraling into violent rebellion.

To add to the absurdity, he drew the salary of an Army Second Lieutenant, performed the duties of a Major, and wore the rank of a Captain. A walking contradiction, dressed in three stars, tasked with pacifying a land that had spent two centuries being brutalized by colonial rule. Generations of subjugation had turned its people into rebels, its villages into simmering furnaces of dissent, and its politics into a tragic comedy of recycled tyranny.

Independence was supposed to be liberation.

Instead, the colonial baton was passed neatly into the hands of new political masters—leaders who had once rallied the masses against foreign oppression but then preserved the same machinery of control. Successive governments fed the fires of conflict, breeding discontent, betrayal, and insurgency across the nation.    

Into this chaos stepped Aridaman Jit Singh.

A Lineage Carved in Battle

Aridaman was born into a family where conflict was not an event, it was a tradition. His grandfather fought in the British Army during World War I. Two uncles served through World War II and later in India’s wars against Pakistan and China. His father stood in the line as an officer in the Rajasthan Police and later in the Border Security Force.

Growing up in the Rajasthan Police Lines was like growing up inside a military training film. Parade grounds echoed with rifle drills. Boots thundered like daily earthquakes. Bugles replaced lullabies. Before he understood algebra, he had already memorized the difference between a left turn, a right turn, and a life-altering wrong turn.

He thrived in the National Cadet Corps, excelling in athletics, boxing, shooting, and tactical exercises. At the 1982 Advance Leadership Camp in Pachmarhi, he rose above hundreds of cadets to be declared Best All-Rounder, winning the gold medal for drill, endurance, combat skills, and cross-country running.

After completing his M.A. in History from Kurukshetra University in 1983, he cleared the national competition for the Border Security Force and joined as a Platoon Commander. Forty-four weeks of grueling training later, he passed out of the BSF Academy on March 31, 1984—a polished weapon ready for deployment.

The Inspector General, the Turban, and the Ten-Minute Purgatory

In April, 1984 the ten freshly minted direct-entry Platoon Commanders reported to the Inspector General’s Headquarters in Calcutta. A collective inspection was underway. Of the ten, nine were assigned to border units almost immediately.

But the tenth—

the lone turbaned officer—

was met with something else.

Inspector General W.G.J. Mudaliar, IPS a short, sharp-featured officer with the quiet intensity of a man used to being obeyed, stopped in front of him. He scanned him slowly—from turban to boots—like he was reading an encrypted message on a reluctant computer screen. And then, without saying a word, moved on.

Units were announced one by one. Luggage was mentally packed. Travel routes were calculated. Spirits were high.

And then there was the last guy.

No posting.

No instructions.

No explanation.

Just silence.

A brand-new officer’s worst nightmare.

Was his training faulty?

Was his turn-out unacceptable?

Was he fired before he even began?

He wandered to the Inspector Admin’s office, looking for answers. Instead, he found the universal greeting given to new entrants in all armed forces: snubs, grunts, and majestic indifference.

His career had begun.

But nobody had told him how—

or where.   

United States of America's Highway Safety depends on Experience-Not Immigration Status

  America’s Trucking Safety Depends on Experience — Not Immigration Status

When the Department of Transportation issued its Interim Final Rule on September 29, 2025, targeting the commercial driving privileges of nearly 196,000 non-domiciled CDL holders, it framed the decision as a matter of “restoring integrity” and improving roadway safety. But the Department’s justification—citing three accidents involving non-domiciled drivers—raises more questions than answers. It also risks causing a crisis far larger and more dangerous than the one it claims to prevent.

The rule targets individuals who have already passed one of the most rigorous state-level testing systems in the world. Each commercial driver—domiciled or not—is required to demonstrate mastery of written knowledge, hazard perception, judgment, information processing, and practical driving skills under live traffic conditions. These tests are administered by trained professionals who assess exactly what matters for road safety.

Crucially, none of these capabilities are influenced by immigration status.

Driving a Class A commercial vehicle is not a theoretical exercise; it is a profession built on skill, endurance, situational awareness, and years of practical experience. The safest drivers are not the ones with the “right” paperwork—they are the ones who have spent thousands of hours navigating storms, construction zones, reckless motorists, mechanical failures, and the daily complexity of America’s highways.

To remove nearly 200,000 experienced drivers overnight—many with years of spotless records—ignores the basic truth that experience is the most valuable safety asset on the road. No regulatory change can manufacture it. No policy memo can replace it.

This rule does more than sideline workers. It risks destabilizing the supply chain at a time when the nation’s logistics system is still rebuilding resilience. Removing this many qualified drivers from the workforce will inevitably:

Flood the roads with inexperienced replacements

Increase training burdens on carriers

Raise freight costs and delivery delays

Disrupt essential goods movement

Create financial devastation for the families of 196,000 drivers

The nation simply cannot afford a safety policy that makes the roads less safe.

America’s democratic institutions have stood for more than two centuries because they protect principles of fairness, evidence-based decision-making, and equality before the law. A regulation that treats a driver’s immigration category as a proxy for safety fails that test. It also risks setting a dangerous precedent where professional competence is overshadowed by political gesture.

The Justices now reviewing this rule bear a weighty responsibility. Their deliberation is not only about regulatory limits—it is about whether the nation’s commitment to fairness and merit still holds. The executive branch crafts policy, but it is the judiciary that ensures those policies honor the Constitution, the facts, and the people affected.

A better path is possible. A fairer, smarter, safer approach would focus on what truly causes accidents: fatigue, substance misuse, poor maintenance, inadequate training, and unsafe carrier practices—not nationality or immigration paperwork. These are issues America has addressed before, with bipartisan support and industry cooperation.

We do not build safer highways by removing skilled drivers. We build safer highways by supporting them, training them, and enforcing rules that actually improve safety outcomes.

For the sake of road safety, economic stability, and the livelihoods of 196,000 families, this rule deserves not just reconsideration—but a complete re-examination grounded in evidence, experience, and the values that define American democracy.

Experience makes safe drivers.

Not immigration status.

Not political spectacle.

And certainly not a rule that confuses the two.

 Barriers to seek justice for minorities in India

There is no question of barriers to justice when you have perpetrators in position of power to administer justice, how do you expect them to go for extreme suicidal step of delivering you justice. As long as the power formation of the laws of the lawlessness will remain in existence and the state is perpetrator of crimes, there will be no justice. If you allow to be taken captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy of governance and justice against which your forefathers sacrificed their lives, then you deserved it.

The biggest barrier in seeking justice in India is the existing state and its attendant institutions of coercive criminal justice system of India that was founded by the colonial rulers and functions on the principle of deception and surprise. The foremost and time-tested principal employed by armies from around the world to win the wars is the principle of deception, to surprise the enemy. The moment enemy succeeds in surprising you to the extent that you perceive him your ally and protector; you are in the midst of a disaster for extinction. The communities that are victims of injustice in post-1947 India are all the victims of colonial India and the two most deceptive institutions of colonial state, the local militia, named as police & " the Indian judiciary " both of these institutions function and follow all the colonial laws, protocols and practices & workculture, that were designed to terrorise and brutalise the public to generate sense of fear and ensure wilful subjugation of communities, for unhindered economic exploitation and that’s what these two institutions have been deceptively doing. In the democratic setup of India both these institutions are mandated for delivering security and justice to the people but the past practical experiences of people on ground substantiate that security and justice is made first casualty by these very two institutions.

The blueprint of these injustices was made by Benjamin Franklin while writing the rules of colonialism, where he says however peaceably your colonies have submitted to your government, shown their affection to your interests, and patiently borne their grievances, you are to suppose them always inclined to revolt and treat them accordingly. Quarter troops among them, who by their insolence may provoke the rising of mobs, and by their bullets and bayonets suppress them. Whenever the injured come to the capital with complaints of maladministration, oppression, or injustice, punish such suitors with long delay, enormous expense and a final judgement in favour of the oppressor.

The Sikh community, the community of warriors, the community that was founded to fight injustice, finds itself as the worst victim of injustices perpetrated not only by political families of majoritarian Hindu community but also by both of these deceptive institutions of police & the alleged Indian judiciary for having raised its voice against injustice and these deceptive institutions have dealt with the Sikh community in accordance to the colonial work culture of terrorising and brutalising the complainants of injustice and advance the agenda of the oppressor state.

The exploitative regime of colonialism, functions on the principle of denying the principal identity of communities by decimating it, through brutalities & terror and by killing the community leaders and to implement this strategy, it protects its criminal institutions through the laws of lawlessness and that's what, post 1947 India has been witnessing. The Sikh community perceives itself as the victim because it raised its voice against injustice and corruption organised itself to democratically challenge the state to demand its rights and the colonial state and its autocratic ruler family that had been nurtured and planted to assume the power deliberately created the circumstances and used the might of Indian army to eliminate this purported threat to the sovereignty of India .but Sikh community should not forget that same treatment is administered to that every community that has its distinct identity and which raises its voice against corruption, injustice and perceived as threat by the existing state.

The insurgency of Nagaland happens to be the oldest insurgency in the country dating back to 1960s. The 21 states of India are under the shadow of another insurgent movement in the name of naxalites where unarmed villagers are being killed in the criminal acts of security forces on regular intervals and community leaders are being tortured to death. The people of Kashmir have paid a heavy price with their lives and properties for having raised their voice against injustice and corruption of exploitative regimes but still it continues unabated. The extra constitutional laws, created by the autocratic rulers of post-1947 India who had assumed the powers of governance from Britishers have kept on succeeding in maintaining status quo by enacting new laws of lawlessness use of Indian army by a state that remains on war with its own people all the time is all part of the post colonial colonialism that perceives Indian society, only through the prism of the ruler and the ruled. The exploitative regime of this post 1947 colonialism has its own social order of the ruler and the ruled and any community or individual, who so ever will endeavour to destabilise this social order will be killed by the state forces or through judicial murders and it is continuing unabated.

It is the biggest propaganda and fraud of 21st century when India claims itself as the world's largest democracy. On the eve of departure from India, the British Rulers handedover the colonial power structure to those political people who were broughtup and conversant with British culture and British value system. and had been acting middleman to diffuse the pressure on colonial rulers by channelising the energy of revolting public from grassroots. This Political leadership with complete loyality to its British Masters not only continued all the antidemocratic laws, rules regulations and protocols and practices in post independent India, they adopted harshest parts of British laws(Government of India Act 1935, Defence of India rules 1910 and redrafted as Defence of India Act 1915) while writting democratic constitution. All those people who were educated and broght up with British education and language wrote democratic constitution of Independent India with antidemocratic laws in tandem.In the name of democracy, India though adopted electoral system but it has continued all the colonial laws of lawlessness and its complete governance apparatus including deceptive judiciary that functions on the principles of absolute discretion and complete immunity to accountability and sole reason of endemic corruption and injustice to its people. It is the judicial corruption and exploitation of governance apparatus protected by local militia in the form of police and Indian army that has led to the emergence of new class struggles in the country.

Nowhere in the world, justice can be dispensed to the people through the laws and the language that remains alien to the social fabric of that society. The Indian judiciary is still following all the colonial laws that were created by Britishers and worded and structured in a way that gives absolute discretion and liberty of interpretation to suit it to its arbitrary judges and accordingly the judicial officers take full advantage of these laws to advance the agenda of state actors/accused and fulfil own vested interests and inflicts injustice to the complainants. The rampant corruption prevalent in judiciary and the police has led to the rejection of both these institutions by the common man on the street and victims of violent crimes keep dying due to public apathy that emanate out of public distrust on these two institutions. As a matter of practice, where ever state actors have been found to be involved in extrajudicial killings or fake encounters the accused persons are allowed to die their natural death before justice is dispensed in such cases. All the cases of corruption or injustice filed against the state actors or even the criminal cases of henious crimes or even rape and murder remain pending in the courts for decades that give advantage to the criminals and inspire their confidence on the courts and the rise in the number of such crimes on the streets is directly attributable to judicial corruption.

The politically elected representatives that are made accountable by public every five years do not have an independent capacity, experience, specialisation & visualisation to bring institutional and structural changes to democratise the existing apparatus and completely bank upon the bureaucratic machinery for policy formulation and this bureaucratic machinery remains on the spree to get enacted Draconian laws to crush the voices of political dissent that are outcome of the conflict between the Democratic aspirations of the people and the existing governance apparatus and its laws.

In such a state of crisis when complete Indian nation is coming in direct conflict with its ruling class, comprising of corrupt political leadership, bureaucracy, judiciary and corrupt media, the onus lies on those community leaders of character and integrity, who can make personal sacrifices of their time and money and organise communities to save Indian society from the onslaught of state institutions and strengthen the political leadership with evidence-based informations for policy formulation for repealing of antidemocratic laws and democratisation of all the governance institutions including police and judiciary. Till such time many more innocent people may have to fall victims to not only injustice and corruption but judicial murders by Indian states and its coercive judiciary and we may have to accept it for having reposed our trust in deceptive institutions and hollow philosophy of establishing the world’s largest democracy.

Miseries of people have not ended

Miseries of people have not ended

book review by Mubashir Rasool Bhat, as it appeared in Rising Kashmir News paper of Srinagar on Wednesday, 11 May 2016.

The book is divided into British era and post-British India, with the authors passionately debating that not much has changed since the transition of power.

Seikh Sadi warned, beware the buildup of an inward wound, for it will at last burst, avoid while you can, distress to one heart, for a single moan can quake the earth.

The book "At war: Four Pillars of Falsehood & Public of Republic", is a never before expose of the prevailing status quo, the inherent colonial legacy. The authors Aridaman Jit Singh and Nayani Singh makes a bold assertion by suggesting that India in real essence never attained freedom from Britain, but covertly transferred the ownership from autocratic British to the colonial pimps.

The term colonial pimps is freely used throughout the book to relate to the stalwarts of the freedom movement like Mohan Das Karamchand Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and Indian National Congress (INC).

The authors provides food for thought when they dig into the past of Pandit Nehru and MK Gandhi, lays bare the historical narrative and provides conclusive proof with regards to them having been on the side of the British all through the enactment of the freedom struggle circus.

Readers discretion advised: be prepared to gasp, as the gory truths about deceit and manipulations are let loose in the public domain with undeniable facts, Gandhis "Kaiser-i-Hind" award for smearing the revolution in South Africa, how Bruce came to the fore, and how revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh etal, they are supreme sacrifices were never owned will keep readers glued to the book.

This well-documented and precisely written pieces of scholarship is divided into British era and post-British India, with the authors passionately debating that not much has changed since the transition of power.

The authors wish to tell the audience that the transition of power from the British Crown was to India and not to Bharat. The Bharat suffered under the oppressive regime of East India company and it continues to do so under the autocratic representatives of the Queen, conciliatory class of intermediaries of Indian National Congress and Muslim league.

The prices of the people have not ended, with change of flags and guard. Colonies don't cease to be colonies by getting independence of the sort India achieved.

"At War; Four Pillars of Falsehood & Public of Republic" is a story of betrayal of gullible Indian population since the dawn of the end of the colonial oppression. Empowered with dubious colonial laws and equally ambiguous and indeterminate Constitution of India, that was described as wastepaper by some of the saner souls of the constituent assembly, the country has continued the solmon traditions of the extortionists colonial state craft; all the while projecting itself as world's largest democracy.

The authors write that executive, judiciary, legislature and press have achieved exactly opposite of what they want us to believe they stand for.

The hypocrisy of the icons of freedom struggle often comes to the fore as the authors unfold the ambivalence and posturing of their whims. The judiciary which Nehru refused to be tried under in 1921, declared its farce, is the same he preferred when "tryst with destiny"speech was belted.

The authors further writet that "India awakens to freedom" was a deception galore to lull people into incomprehension.. On a lighter note, the authors wants us to know that when the "India awakens to freedom" speech being broadcasted, the only people sleeping were the people of India as it was around midnight and vast majority of rural hard-working Indians having the much deserved rest.

The authors say that the only people who were awake were the people of England along with their Queen.

The book gives a vivid description of how the state machinery inherited from the British was unleased on people as a source of oppression and it continues to be so. Exploitative taxation under Raj continues in form or another, pillars of democracy refused to hold state machinery answerable on account of crimes perpetrated against the average Indian, the executive, the judiciary, the legislature and the press is nothing but the knight in shining armour.

The authors have also called the Indian Constitution as the "law of the lawlessness".

One of the authors have served in security apparatus of India and was deputed as operational commander on internal security duty to Punjab, where the Khalistan movement had spread its tentacles and engulfed the whole region.

He articulates the case study where he had his fingers on the pulse with pure rationale and hard-hitting facts. The situation in Punjab was exaggerated to satisfy the whims and desires of the ruling elite.

The author writes that the drama was enacted with the state machinery empowered with colonial laws that gave forces the absolute impunity. Hence an acre where people could be held without trial, access to lawyers, and forced disappearances, fake encounters, laws like Armed Forces (special Powers) acts (AFSPA), prevention of terrorism act (POTA), and terrorists and disruptive activities (prevention) act (TADA) ushered in galore. Declaring conspicuous and telling insight his provided when the book discusses how appointments to the offices of highest prominence are carried out. The appointments of Pres, governors of the states, and other top ranking officials within the security apparatus are merely tools of the Central government to rob people of civil sovereignty dodgy ordinances are passed left, right and centre to execute the gory will of the state against the citizenry.

In the conclusion, it would be apt to say that the independence of India has not yet see its dawn, the same draconian colonial abyss prevails; the political movements of the past that claimed to have worked for the people of India have in reality never reflected the true aspirations of people.

In retrospect, it has become all the more imperative that we hold these corridors of power accountable to their vicious agenda against the very people they claim to represent.

The concept of modern-day nationalism has come to blind and divide rather than to enlighten and unite. It is this modern-day Frankestein what Oscar Wilde referred to as" vicious".

The state does what it has to that is to safeguard the territorial integrity and it does so in the garb of democracy.

Author can be emailed at srinagar.dhv@gmail.com

Police; The Punishment Posting concept and threat to national ecurity

This year around Jan 2013 when people of सत्यमेवजयते reached us to share the ideas on policing issues of India, they were categorical to know about the concept of "Punishment Posting" in Police organizations.
As an answer to their request, I helped them to interview some of the people whom I presumed to have suffered on these punishment postings in their stint while working with the police but while facing camera they were not very forthright in describing their perceptions on this issue but still their answers made it conspicuous that it is all about ill gotten money of organized corruption that police working entails from victims and criminals.
The concept of punishment posting or side line posting is all  about the dry postings that have no scope of  additional income in the form of bribes, extortions, commissions etc.

Encounter Specialists Forces of Union of India are capable of driving every Indian to insurgency

I had written above article in the wake of washing out of complete Coy of CRPF by Maoists and found it hosted on Mili Gazette so reposting it here too;Encounter of Maoist cadre by Police

The Milli Gazette

Published Online: May 31, 2013
Print Issue: 16-31 July 2010
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is known as insanity and that’s what the Indian Police Service seems to be suffering from.

They are taking the leadership of this country for a ride. If they continue these killings and their organized corruption, the day is not far when they will drive all sane Indians to jungles with guns in their hands.

The Apex Court had rightly pronounced in its judgment that “Police excesses will kill democracy in India”. Every act of Police whether it is extortion by traffic cops or illegal detention, custodial death or extrajudicial killings, use of excessive force by police on protesting citizens or denying legitimate space for protests, each and every act of Police turns into a nail in the head of democracy. Even the most peaceful states like Haryana and Himachal are not exceptions to the above unprofessional conduct of civil police. RK Sharma (IPS) is in jail over Shivani murder, SPS Rathore (IPS) is in jail over Ruchika molestation case while some of their accomplices from IPS who helped them are still enjoying the immunity extended by their fraternity (you protect my back I will protect your back-pact). Ramesh Sehgal (IPS) was caught taking bribe from a jailed criminal, Anil Dawra (IPS) is jailed for felony. The worst example of these people promoting crime is the case of Sub-Inspector Ram Kumar of Haryana Police who was accused of gang rape of a minor and remains absconding from the judicial process and is declared proclaimed offender but the Immune Police Service leaderhsip not only regularised his absence period but promoted him to Dy.SP and when questioned by Punjab Haryana High Court, the current DGP said: It is the state government that can take action bacause he is now Dy.SP. They are nothing but criminal minds in uniform. Surely there are no psychology tests conducted for induction into IPS. Even if these psychology tests had been introduced, these characters could have bribed their way through to plunder India by organized corruption and organized violence.

The recent comments of one of these officers on the casualities being suffered by CRPF reflects upon their shallow professional knowledge. We are sure this fraternity of Salaskars and Rajbirs decorated for killings of 100s, are only experts in fake encounters of unarmed people but when pitted against armed persons they die like sitting ducks without even firing a single shot and if this pseudo-khaki general who indulged into loose talk on CRPF killings has some notions about his abilities and leadership, he must take on this challenge and physically lead single operations. These pseudo-cops have always waded through papers on clerical tables with in four walls, or else they would understand what counter-insurgency operations are all about. Holding press briefings and Powerpoint presentations and pleasing politicians are their forte while counter-insurgency operations are acid tests to win over the trust of our people and call for exemplary leadership and here these peudo-cops fail completely. Each fake encounter through which these pseudos are trying to demonstrate their performance is going to turn into a nail into the coffin of Indian democracy.

Indians please wake up, barbarians are defiling the sacrosanct profession of arms. Dilip Trivedi, MP from Trinamool Congress, has rightly said that the bureaucracy’s, apathy is going to turn the whole country into Maoists or terrorists. It is the last bastion of colonial India, the sooner we get rid of it the better.

Judiciary must take cognizance of these killings and act suo mottu. And lastly, all the CRPF casualities are directly attributable to lack of perspective on counter-insurgency operational deployment by the babus in uniforms heading the state Police. Home Minister and Chief Minister must identify the enemy from within and discard them immediately and give command of opeartions into the hands of those who have practical experience and lived through these things. We are sure they will not find even a single cop with this qualitative requirement. They must not be misled by the badges of rank worn by these pseudo-generals. (Ci Veterans  - civeterans@rediffmail.com)

This article appeared in The Milli Gazette print issue of 16-31 July 2010 on page no. 11