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masses that police will not do the crime prevention work between themselves have duopoly over the air and it is not
for there is no quantification of such work and hence no available for free. One is selling the air at rupee one a litre,
reward. How do you prove that you have prevented the another may offer the same at ninety paise a litre. I am forced
crime because it did not take place? to buy air in order to survive. So if a person is sent to jail, he
will have to buy his freedom weighing and comparing the
The police officer at police station level marks his different prices being offered by these duopolists-the police
departure in station diary and then sleeps at home. If a and the court.
crime takes place, his movement in diary will be shown in
opposite direction. After the crime is committed, he will
not investigate it properly to catch the real culprit. Some
of them are not competent to investigate and some will not
do for ulterior motive of shielding the criminal. The end
result is proliferation of crime. Some innocent person may
be sent to jail and later on dubbed as “veteran criminal”.
So basically an innocent person (Musahar) suffers for the
mistakes committed by policeman. Superior officers on
their part may also have failed in both crime prevention and
detection part or else the Musahar would not have gone
to jail ten times. If you do not identify the black spots of
crime, the likely hours of crime etc. and ensure proper crime
prevention work, a time will come when the whole space
will turn black and every second will be the likely time of
occurrence of crime.

Fourthly, we hear police officers crying hoarse
over the failure of the judicial system, criminals getting
acquitted and going scot-free. A number of reasons can be
cited for such acquittals despite the best efforts of police.
But can you charge a judge for not convicting (Musahar) for
theft that he had not committed? Should he be convicted
simply because he was sent to jail earlier ten times for,
again, the crimes that he had not committed? There is no
dearth of senior officers who are simply not bothered at
what is going on at grass root level. There is another set of
officers who will dare not take the decision of releasing a
person from custody, for fear of media or some influential
person with some axe to grind casting aspersion on their
integrity.
Lack of proper investigation of crime will result in
some innocent person landing up in jail. Don’t we take the Will there be any
decision of sending a person to jail at the drop of our hat thinking over the present
least realising that it is going to cause irreparable damage to functioning and use of
that person adversely affecting his whole life? Should this the existing power of
unfettered power be left with the unworthy? police before clamouring
for more power? Will
Thirdly, a personis being forced to be a bribe-giver anyone please listen to
and promote corruption. I have a right to breathe fresh air Musahar’s biwi?
without paying anything for it. There are two persons who

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