On 9/6/06, sastry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But in India security agencies need to be able to work in an environment unfettered by political interference and corruption so that known criminal aand known crimianl activity can be curbed. For India the question of
Agreed. But any security agency, anywhere in the world, needs monitoring to ensure that their "militarists", as Kragen calls them, do not abuse their power. Indian security agencies have repeatedly demonstrated their ability to create fake "encounters" to kill people who may or may not have been criminals, as they never were tried by a court of law. I hope you are not suggesting that an "unfettered" environment for these agencies means that they are not subject to executive and political supervision for, among other things, preventing human rights violations. The ideal situation would be security agencies that see no political or executive interference in their daily operations, but are prosecuted to the fullest extent when they break the law. Ram
