This errant rider quarrelled with the police and obstructed personnel from carrying out their duty, our report said
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Soon after the Mumbai Commissioner of Police announced that people found driving or riding on the wrong side of the road would be booked for rash driving, the police booked and arrested a man who was riding on the wrong side.
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This errant rider quarrelled with the police and obstructed personnel from carrying out their duty, our report said.
Arguments ensued with the duty officer, there was shouting and commotion. The accused also called a local political leader. That particular political leader also gave an ear to the cops and then said they can go ahead and do their duty.
Besides the obvious crime of obstructing personnel and fighting with the men in uniform when firstly one is wrong, we need to pay close attention to this calling up somebody influential or politically connected.
This needs to stop from the very top to the grass roots and we have to weed this out of our society. So much of our response and our lives unfortunately are governed by who we know and what strings we can pull, in a highly corrupt society.
One call to the ‘correct’ person and an errant person goes scot free. It is an opportune time to cancel this ‘the powerful will get me out’ culture. For this, political leaders must refuse to intervene.
They cannot be doing favours to those in the wrong, for this encourages people to break the law or make them fearless as they believe with the right connections, there can be no consequences.
This rot has seeped deep down into society. It is demoralising and humiliating for a person of authority having to let go of an accused because of who the latter knows. This is a small incident but a start point from where we should start thinking and acting to change this.
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