Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Third degree methods are only for the poor.....

I remember one of my Law Professors used to say rather contemptuously: "In India it is anticipatory bail for the rich and anticipatory jail for the poor"....we used to laugh at the smart formulation not realising what horrors lay behind it.... We often come across allegations of police torturing suspects....have you ever noticed that those are all poor people...have you ever come across even a single instance of a rich person having been subjected to third degree methods while in police custody?