Bulandshahar : Shrestha Thakur, deputy superintendent of Uttar Pradesh police, became famous recently when a video of her standing up to BJP workers went viral. The 2012 batch officer, with professional maturity that betrays her age and personal ethics that demand adoration, will work under many IPS officers till her retirement. The way things are today, most of them will turn out to be spineless. No questions asked, no answers given.
The IPS world is a weird place. Most of its inhabitants have a strong sense of entitlement and a crippling understanding of accountability.
They say they are only 4,000 in a country of 1.3 billion people. They say the failure, real or imaginary, to establish the rule of law is not theirs. They say the incidents of mob-driven communal violence are not new to India. They say these incidents are neither planned nor predictable and also not entirely preventable. They say the police machinery is not always complicit; sometimes it is simply ineffective or incompetent. They say what is needed is thoughtful policy-making, not outrage and breast-beating.
The woman police officer of Syana circle in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahar district, Shrestha Thakur who fined BJP leader has been transferred to Bahraich on Saturday.
The development comes days after Shrestha Thakur- famously known as “Lady Singham” had fined a BJP supported Zilla Panchayat member Pramod Lodhi for not wearing a helmet and seized his bike.
