The last month has been one of coincidences for the wrong reasons. First a young woman drives her Honda CRV through a bevy of policemen in Mumbia, then two young Iranian women, assault & bite a cop for good measure in Bengaluru & very recently, a group of youth, in a fit of rage, run over a law enforcer in the national capital region , NOIDA.
The coincidences- all were young, rich & very drunk, while speeding in their fancy cars!
In the incidents narrated above, except for the one at Bengaluru, the cops at the receiving end are either dead or battling for life, in Govt. Hospitals, where the rich kids would not even go within sniffing distance.
The police in Bangalore, on public demand, have taken a tough stand against drunken driving & have been shutting down pubs and bars at early hours.These measures have been termed retrograde and earned the wrath of many of my fellow Bangaloreans as draconian & harsh. I agree that the less we are policed the better it would be, but how would explain that to the families of the dead cops & those of the young kids who now are in jail, with the possibility of facing extended jail sentences and a tainted life.
Responsibility is the price of freedom, a fact that many of us seem to have conveniently forgotten & till the message sinks firmly home, I'm strongly rooting for tough laws against drunken driving & early closure of 'palces of entertainment' even if it make the city and people of Bengaluru look old fashioned!
