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 :
* 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 !
* 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 ?
* 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 remembered 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I gather that the NDA government has already repealed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
* Police System
( including doubling their salaries ? / freezing new recruitment in police
force for 5 years )
* Judicial
System ( no postponements or dates / hearing and disposal of cases in single
seating )
* Creating
thousands of Lok Adalats to settle minor civil disputes in single hearing (
like arbitration ? )
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hemenparekh.in / blogs
07 Feb 2016
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