the great Indian tomfoolery
The Great Indian tomfoolery

I just happened to visit the site http://www.delhipolice.nic.in/ (Delhi Police) and the motto reads “With you for always”.

My interest in the workings of the Delhi Police started when they scared the hell out of Nicky Boje and Herschelle Gibbs, leading to the SA players pledging that they would never set foot in India again. Apparently the Delhi police being a very efficient police force, wanted to catch all the criminals involved in the match fixing case, a totally honorable intention – no doubt.

The next case which caught my eye was the arrest of the Bazee CEO who was arrested because there was a sale of an objectionable item on Bazee. The claim was made that since Avinash Bajaj was the CEO of a portal, he has to be arrested.

Bazee.com sells 50 lakh items across 1500 categories and the CEO of the company is expected to keep track of every item which is sold on his site – that is what the Delhi Police and the Indian courts (which denied him bail) believe – and off course the Delhi Police have very honorable intentions.

After all it isn’t wrong to expect the CEO of a 50 million dollar company to keep track of the 50 lakh items sold on his portal, is it? It is perfectly reasonable, so feels the Indian justice system.

I’ll attempt to examine the concept of “CEO being responsible” funda. Since justice is all pervasive, no doubt this idea should be applied to all scenarios. I will apply this to certain cases which popped up in my mind.

Let us take our very efficient government. Recently there was a train mishap in Punjab. The minister of the railways is Laloo Prasad Yadav, so shall we hold him responsible for the mishap and arrest him for negligence?

Then there was the infamous case of Phaneesh Murthy’s behavior in Infosys Technologies. So was the then CEO Narayan Murthy responsible?

I am not sure really, maybe it is for the Indian justice system and its ardent supporters to answer the domain in which such a law can be applied.

Thousands of crimes happen in India every day, 50 percent of our politicians are criminals, all of them go scot free. But the police become extra sharp when they sniff a case with good media exposure.
The match fixing case – the case was closed with the death of Cronje – but no the bloody police have to interrogate and issue arrest warrants for the S. Africans. Why don’t they interrogate Jadeja , Prabhakar and Azhar – 3 Indians involved in the scandal – How come there seems to be no arrest warrants against them?
I came across another case – In a case of custody violence the Gulabi Bagh police station under North Delhi District decides to teach a lesson to a young man by breaking his hand and rendering him incapable of earning his livelihood for almost two months. And when their atrocity was exposed the police tried to brand him as a thief. Further more the police framed up false charges against the victim besides digging up unsubstantiated cases against him in other police station of Delhi.
So now who is responsible for this – shall we ask the Commissioner of the Delhi Police to resign?
The conduct of the police is disgusting to say the least and the Delhi court seems more than happy to give a hand. Interestingly the couple who started of all this are yet free and they go arrest the Asian CEO of ebay.com.
INHO the police should concentrate on arresting actual criminals, and not people just to get some media attention.
"Our investigations revealed that Baazee.com did not exercise due diligence, which is why the sale was continuing," Prabahkar, a senior police officer said. "Action will be taken against all those found to have liability in the case," said Prabhakar who uses one name.
Prabhakar, the great police officer who uses one name, no doubt he is modeling himself on some cheesy police flick – Captain Prabhakar perhaps?

Get a life dude!!

So anyone with answers out there, I am waiting for some brick bats and justifications of the police action.





Vasanth Krishna Namasivayam