Police in Dantewada have arrested Mr Verma, General Manager of Essar Steel ltd, on charges of waging war against the state and sedition. TOI, September 28. His crime was paying protection money to Maoist criminals called Naxals. When the state is completely impotent in protecting its citizens against criminals why is it a crime to try and protect your workers? A few months earlier the Naxals killed more than 70 policemen in an ambush in the same area and still there has been no planned effort to hunt down the killers and eliminate them. Police are untrained in jungle warfare, housed in makeshift camps without proper food and with no advanced arms to defend themselves. So who are the police protecting? Criminal politicians and thieving civil servants, of course. The Supreme Court has admitted a Public Interest Litigation challenging the use of red beacons on official cars and unnecessary police security for two penny officials and politicians for whom it is a status symbol. You have not arrived unless you have Z plus security. Seems that 750 MPs and self styled VIPs bought confiscated weapons in the last 25 years. Shows how keen politicians are to protect their filthy hides while denying us the same rights. When Islamic terrorists hijacked an Air India plane and flew it to Kandahar in Afghanistan the then government just caved in to their demands and released convicted terrorists from Indian prisons who then went on to commit more carnage. Why are these ministers not in the same cell as Mr Verma. Shipping companies regularly pay millions to Somali pirates but then in India a ship is more valuable than citizens. Bastards.