Re: News: Police fire on mob....

[murtaza <a1285@emirates.net.ae>]

At 11:11 AM 7/14/97 +0530, you wrote:
>The police version is that some rioters tried to set fire to Three trucks
>carrying compressed LPG Gas. Had even truck caught fire, it would have
>spread to the other two trucks and the blast would have blown apart the
>entire slum area and area for miles along all sides. There was no time and
>choice - they had to react instantaneously.That was when the firing
>happened.
>in another case the mob set fire to a luxury bus carrying outstation
>pasengers and then did not allow the passengers to alight from the bus. The
>police had to intervene to allow passengers to come out.
>
>If the above is true, it does not seem that police had a choice. However
>the fact remains that they could have fired on the legs - there has been
>indiscriminate firing - but I think the leaders of the political parties
>should take responsibility for inciting the mob rather than trying to calm
>hings down. they had a chance to do so.
>
>>The news dispatch from Reuters (the one I distributed) seemed to indicate that
>>the police could have avoided firing. But I have learnt since then that they
>>(the police) did not have much choice. I would desperately like to believe the
>>latter since I would hate to think of Bombay (and India) as a place where
>>the law-keepers are out of control.
>>
>>Can someone from Bombay provide a balanced view of this whole sordid saga ?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>- 'shal
>>
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