One late night MangoMan was singing We don't need no education by Pink Floyd while returning home unaware of the fact that our beloved beat constable was also taking round that night not for the safety of people but to collect payoff from pimp, prostitutes, drug peddlers and usual suspects. MM shrilled voice pierced silence of the night and reached to ear of beat cop who was just round the corner. Cop, flashing his baton,came running to MM and asked why he is singing so loud in the night and is he drunk or on dope. Our poor MM thought that cop is just enquiring so he told that he is not singing loud and he is absolutely not drunk and he will mind his business but the cop was in no mood to relent so he told MM that he was creating noise pollution and under blah blah article its crime to make noise after 10:00 PM so MM needs to come with him to nearest police station. Hearing this from Cop, MM got into argument with Cop without realizing the outcome of the argument. Cop asked MM about his background and after making sure that MM is just an ordinary Joe without any connection he gave a tight slap to MM and told MM to keep his mouth shut and never to argue with a Cop and if MM will keep on arguing with him he will give a beating of his life and put him in Jail. MM a law abiding and tax paying citizen never thought in his wild dream that he can be so badly treated by a beat constable...a constable. A slap from a constable directly impacted the pride of MM who is an IIT graduate doing perfectly good in his job and was schedule to go to USA in couple of month. MM got misty eyed and asked cop what he wanted and pleaded with cop to let him go. Cop flashed a crooked grin which will bring shame to hardened criminals. Cop asked MM to pay him 100 buck and ask for forgiveness. MM did the both as fast he could and sprinted back to our apartment without looking back. I was as usual goofing around at our place but when i saw MM entering crying. I sensed something happened wrong with MM so gave him a glass of water and asked him what happened. Sobbingly he narrated me the horror story of which he was the hero, in between taking break to drink water. MM kept on crying and saying how a cop that too a constable can behave so inhumanly with him. When i tried to remind him that he is just an regular joe without any connection i.e. neither name of his father nor anybody from his middle class family hold any significance so he has to be more careful while dealing with Police or to say any government officials. MM who had enough from the cop poured all his frustration on me. He started yelling at me, telling me how indifferent i am to his sorry state and because of people like me the government and its official behave the way the cop behaved with MM. Once MM was done he went to sleep but he made me realize that seriously not me but most of the indians will react as I did to MM's situation which is of Indifference and Apathy.
Seriously we Indians speak about becoming World Superpower and all but in the first place we don't expect our government and its subsidiaries to deliver, in-fact we even don't expect officials in government to behave with us in dignified way and the worst of lot is our Police Department. You don't believe me, walk into any government office and specifically police station with your work and ask the officials to get your work done. You will get real nightmare and the taste of India. The public servants, who are there to serve us are the new feudal lords of India. They are there not to help us but to harass us, to mock us, to ridicule us and to make our life miserable and the best part is we take all this. We are use to non-performing government and their officials till the time they don't bother us and don't come to our door step. Hope we will all wake up before they come to our doorstep with this thought i started humming...We don't need no Rouge Police...We don't need no Corrupt Bureaucracy in the privacy of my house in a very hush voice so that my neighbor hood beat constable doesn't get disturbed.
Note: Some horror stories of our Police force:
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