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Empowering
the Bihar police under the constitutional
framework by Nitish Government shows that the
government is keen to revamp the law and order
system in the state. Intention is that the
normal functioning in view of the efficiency and
the working condition of the Bihar police as of
now is not satisfactory enough. Hence this
strategy i.e. empowering the Bihar police so as
to enable them to function with more confidence
and accountability. If this is the fair approach
to assess and overview the functioning of the
Bihar police, then undeniably, this special
provision might fetch substantial results.
Secondly, as it has been claimed that Bihar as
such is the first to follow the apex court
guideline in this regard. It doesn’t mean that
the rest of the states if not all, need such
special provision to function effectively for
maintaining law and order in the states. Every
police department has to comply with and that is
under the constitutional provision though it
might not be with the optimum positive results.
The time only will tell us. Because, police
personnel too are human beings and to err is
human being. But the fact is law has nothing to
do with emotional part of the people and the
society. It means repairing is fine if something
is wrong with the society but it is extremely a
cumbersome task if we talk of the maintenance of
law and order.
Substantial academic touch to the problem like
seminars and research on the functioning of the
police has been taking place across the country
over the time and ended always with a big
question mark. And those are many. Some of them
can be seen in the Bollywood films particularly
in the films of Ram Gopal Verma and Prakash Jha.
Certainly, these dramatized naked facts are
painful for a civilized society where we can
satisfy ourselves by raising several ifs and
buts, but of course with no positive results.
How to handle the criminals and keep watch on
the rising crime is not the prime concern of
police but the society as well who is equally
responsible. The only line of demarcation is
that policing is a paid job while society is
never. The priceless job of the society is that
it takes care of itself where people flow as
blood in the veins of civility. Bihar has once
been declared as the best administered state
which shows that the people were committed and
accountable towards the rule of law and the
police found that law and order were in good
health. Yes it happened not absolutely but
rarely.
Protest by the opposition may sound reasonable
provided it refuses what has been taking place
in the past: nexus between the police and the
politicians, engineering communal riots,
harboring the dens of the antisocial elements
and considerable rise in big or small crimes -
all these do not take place without pointing the
suspicion of needle on both, the police and
politicians. The people therefore have got to
bear the consequences in one sense or the other.
Democracy is a responsibility with optimum
commitment. Autocracy or anarchy is lawlessness.
Execution or implementation of any type of law
has never been a problem in the history of free
India. If the intention is good every law is
good, every system is good provided it serves
the people in its possible purest form. Else a
law is made and it is broken.
शक्ति जो चेतन थी,
अब जड़ हो गयी है।
बचपन में जो कुंजी मेरे पास थी,
उम्र बढ़ते बढ़ते
वह कहीं खो गयी है।
- दिनकर
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