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Enquiry Commissions
As A Black Hole

By Sorit Gupto

09 August, 2005
Countercurrents.org

The police atrocities on agitating unemployed workers of Honda Scooter corporation of Gurgaon and its later developments should not seen as isolated incidence as various politicians and newspaper edits are trying to make us believe.The incident is just the tip of the iceberg of the new world 'order' and its overall impact to the common masses.

We have come across some new terms coined during past decades like Free trade, FDI, National Security to name a few. These are not just terms but a sort of tools through which a continuous effort is carried out globally through different state apparatus to change the course of history .

The rules are simple, the message is straight, that is , 'Either you are with us[read free market] or you are with the enemy', and now the word enemy has been replaced with the word terrorist.In other words it is the war of civilisations.

History says that when it is war , every thing is not only possible but allowed as well. On last Mondays incident, Indian Industry has observed that Labour laws has to be more flexible, because according to them it is the Labour laws that is the root cause of the problem, and it is nothing very new or original observations so far. As a matter of fact Indian industry is echoing the demands of New global order, as for them,a number of laws existed till date are obsolete and they should be changed.

A new law has come to its existence . According to this, every one is not equal before the law,how the law will take it's course on a person depends on the side of fence he or she is standing, one can land into Abu Graib, Guatanamo bay, a local lock up or simply or before an enquiry commission.
For example the recent incidence of Gurgaon, where on Monday 25th'05 of July, some 3,000 workers of Honda Motorcycles and Scooters India Ltd began protesting a lockout of their factory and the dismissal of some colleagues , in Gurgaon town of Hariyana province.

The workers took out a procession through the streets. Police then indiscriminately rained baton blows on workers leading to pitched battles left seven hundred people severely injured, of them, some hundreds were admitted to the hospitals of Gurgaon and in nearby towns like Rewari and Sohna.

Police said 29 people were injured and 60 were arrested and charged with rioting and preventing public servants from doing their duty.

Authorities said the number is close to 100 and about half had to be hospitalised. Media reports said between several hundred and more than 1,000 workers were hurt.

On the same day, after the killing of three innocent Kashmiri youths and injury to another in Kupwara by army personale in an ambush in north Kashmir, army expressed regret over the incident and said an inquiry has been ordered into it.

On February 19,2003 Antony government of Kerala province unleashed police terror on the Tribal agitators at the Muthanga forests .Officially it left one policeman and "only" one tribal killed, about 300 tribals arrested and imprisoned, and scores of others admitted to the hospital.

Technically speaking one can say that in each and every case both the sides [the state and the agitators] processed arms with them.In this respect both should face equal treatment before the law but contrary to that, the attitude or immediate response of the Judiciary is very much indifferent towards the Police or security forces and the victims[in most of the incidence they useally termed as 'Mob'].For first there is normally a commission of inquiry has been set and when it comes to the victims they usually bring to the police custody to face several charges framed on them as we have seen in the incidence of Gurgaon ,sixty agitators are arrested and in Muthanga the number of arrested people was 300.

For any atrocities from there side, the State has two answers namely Regret and Judicial enquery. In case of police or security personal ,the treatment is different.Immidiatly after any incidence an enquery commission has been formed. the' punishment'[ if at all they convicted and proved guilty] comes in form of transfer, and that's all. A series of human rights abuses in each and every part of the globe has met with the same fate.Be it Manorama Devi case of Manipur,Chittising pora case of Kashmir,recent cold blooded murder of Brazilian chap London police or Abu Graib prison atrocities....the list is endless.

As far as India is concern, every one knows about the 'normal' pace of the court proceedings, and so all these commissions, needless to say has virtually become black holes.

It is just impossible to know the exact number of inquiry commissions , set up, for digging the truth for one incidence or other for past sixty years in India, and equally it is impossible to know the recommendations, given by these Fact finding commissions, forget about the chances of the implication of the same.

As a matter of fact these enquiry commissions has proved themselves as 'black Holes'. State or to be precise the security forces paved the way on which the market comes, and that is why after every such incidence we are told that for easy flow of FDI, the action was needed, and any criticism of the action would adversely affect the FDI flow.

So, better you change the laws, be a partner of the global order.It is the enquiry commission for the few, and misery for the rest. Welcome to the New World Order.


 

 

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