ANTI-SPITTING LAW ?
Today's
Hindustan Times reports that the Govt of Maharashtra is planning to introduce
in the budget session , an ANTI SPITTING LAW , under which , the first time
offenders will be fined Rs 1000 and a day's Community Service
For
repeat offenders , both , the amount of fine and the duration of Community
Service , will increase sharply
Welcoming
this initiative , I wonder if the concerned Minister for Health , Shri Deepak
Sawant considered the following :
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Each offence will need to be immediately recorded digitally ( with photo /
Aadhar Card No of the offender /
amount of fine paid and how / place of crime / where that community service was
carried out / name of the
Authority certifying that Community Service , etc ), so that the " History
of Repeat Offenses " ( stored in the
server of the Police Department ) can emerge instantly , on the HAND HELD
OFFENSE RECORDING DEVICE of
the policemen ,as soon as he enters the offender's Aadhar Card Number
I hope the proposed law does not require every citizen to carry at all times
," MY SPITTING HISTORY CARD ",
in which , the policemen will make appropriate entry , during each
offence !
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What if the suspected citizen denies the crime ? Will the law provide for the
police officer to collect samples of
saliva from the ground and from suspect's mouth and send these for DNA matching
in a forensic lab ?
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The honesty / integrity of the police force, so that they will enforce the law
without fear or favor and not use it
as one more source of " Side Income " !
I
am reminded of the time when travelling from Naples to Mumbai in a ship in 1958
, we had a one day stop-over in Karachi
Along
with a few friends, I disembarked and went around the city , which I found very
clean
Surprised
at this unexpected cleanliness , I asked a local person for an explanation
He
said :
If
the police catches you spitting in public , he will make you pay a fine of Rs
100 and will make you take out your handkerchief and clean up the dirtied
place, right there and then .
If
the policeman is found negligent then General Yahyakhan will place him behind
the bars without any court case
That
day , I understood the secret of a disciplined society , viz:
A
non-corruptible police force , which would not care a hoot that you are a VIP
or a VVIP !
I
gather that the NDA government has already repealed some 175 antiquated /
obsolete laws
Repeal
of another 900 are already passed in Lok Sabha and stuck for Rajya Sabha
passing
Another
1000 are in queue !
Let
us not enact more and more laws which cannot be implemented / enforced but can
be used to harass innocent citizens to make money !
Let
us focus on reforms in
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Police System ( including doubling their salaries ? / freezing new recruitment
in police force for 5 years )
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Judicial System ( no postponements or dates / hearing and disposal of cases in
single seating )
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Creating thousands of Lok Adalats to settle minor civil disputes in single
hearing ( like arbitration ? ) , in
order to clear the backlog of some 300 lakh cases pending in our Courts - 10 %
for over 10 years !
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07
Feb 2016
hemen
parekh
Marol
, Mumbai , India
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M ) +91 - 98,67,55,08,08
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