Credit: Gordon Johnson, from Pixabay Thanks for reading Gimme Mo! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. When Cops Turn Rogue After a weekend in Delhi, the boys were on their way to the bus stand, to head back to their college in Pilani. They asked the auto driver to stop in Pahar Ganj, where one of them went to see if he could ‘score’ some
Reminds me of Late 90s , 5-6 of us were in a friends new car all 18-19 year olds were stopped on our way back from the beach in Surat … it was ok till they searched our car for booz in the dry state of gujarat but when they couldn’t find anything the totally drunk inspector got mad and started insulted us for being Muslims and then lined us all up on the side of the road and gave us all a danda thrashing before letting us go.
On accountability for police, a start to stop petty extractions could be a US like camera on the cops to record everything they do.
But I think the issue here is intent rather than solution
In the second instance, did the policemen find something in the phones that they claimed was incriminating -- even tangentially so? Because, I still feel that the policemen will need some fig-leaf of an excuse to blackmail and extort money. Naked extortion, with no pretext whatsoever, from upper-middle-class, college-going kids in a major metro sounds like a very risky move for a policeman to make, no?
Grim read. Are any of these experiences, personal?
Reminds me of Late 90s , 5-6 of us were in a friends new car all 18-19 year olds were stopped on our way back from the beach in Surat … it was ok till they searched our car for booz in the dry state of gujarat but when they couldn’t find anything the totally drunk inspector got mad and started insulted us for being Muslims and then lined us all up on the side of the road and gave us all a danda thrashing before letting us go.
On accountability for police, a start to stop petty extractions could be a US like camera on the cops to record everything they do.
But I think the issue here is intent rather than solution
In the second instance, did the policemen find something in the phones that they claimed was incriminating -- even tangentially so? Because, I still feel that the policemen will need some fig-leaf of an excuse to blackmail and extort money. Naked extortion, with no pretext whatsoever, from upper-middle-class, college-going kids in a major metro sounds like a very risky move for a policeman to make, no?