Breakdown of Police Intelligence

How much alert or sensitive is our police to the events happening around is evident from the reaction of police to the 268 houses and scores of vehicles of Dalits being torched in three colonies by a mob of some 1800 people on November 7, 2012 near Dharmapuri. An inter-caste marriage between a dalit boy and a non-dalit girl resulting in the suicide of the girl’s father is reported to be the cause of a holocaust delivered on these hapless citizens of the State of Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu police, otherwise known for its efficiency, failed to gauge the seriousness of the situation and take preventive steps needed for the occasion. What happened to the trained manpower, latest gadgets & top class vehicles kept at the disposal of the police force in the state? A sincere and serious enquiry needs to be taken up immediately so that such things don’t occur so easily and people don’t have to move PILs in the High Court for suspension of District Collector and S.P on the ground that it was an organized crime against the dalits, as claimed by the Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes. Who is to compensate the loss of properties owned and enjoyed by the dalits? -- certainly not the State but by the perpetrators of violence so that non-dalts think twice before indulging in such criminal activities and atrocities on dalits. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++