Zero tolerance for whom.

A young woman of 23 years of age gets up on a bus in Delhi on 16 December accompanied by a young man. She is molested and when the man objects he is severely beaten up. She is then raped by 6 men and violently beaten because apparently she bit one of them in defense. Both are then thrown off the bus. She is admitted to hospital where she undergoes surgery to remove most of her small intestines which had become gangrenous. Even doctors, who are used to seeing injuries, are shocked. Her plight shocks the nation and people come out in protest against the constant assaults on women in the national capital. So the police beat up the protesters, arrest several and shut down metro stations to inconvenience all the citizens. One policeman, Subhash Tomar is found dead near India Gate and is taken to hospital. Doctors try to revive him but fail. They do not notice any injuries on his body but police allege that he was beaten to death. A postmortem apparently shows injuries. So who is lying? During resuscitation of a cardiac arrest patient ribs may be fractured during vigorous cardiac massage and defibrillator shocks may produce burns on the skin. Any medical intern knows that. One Congress minister compares protesters to Naxal terrorists and another Congress fellow says all the women protesters were " dented and painted ". According to the Congress only the aam aadmi can have any rights because they can be bribed by handouts into voting for the Congress. The educated middle class are an inconvenience because they ask too many questions and expect politicians to behave with propriety. After the operation we are told that the lady is improving, talking and is able to take small amounts of liquids. Unfortunately she develops an infection which is not uncommon in a patient with severe trauma and paralytic ileus. She is put back on life support and then suddenly 2 days back she is shifted to a hospital in Singapore. Why? With all the state of the art hospitals in India which are earning vast amounts through medical tourism do we not have facilities and doctors with training in intensive care to treat her? But better is to follow. The doctors in Singapore immediately announce that her brain is affected. What does that mean? Is it a subtle way of saying that she was already brain dead when she was shifted? Was this whole drama stage managed to show that the government was trying everything? With taxpayer money anything is possible. A day later she dies and her body is flown here in the early hours of the morning and police force the family to perform last rights at 7.30 AM. Ostensibly to reduce protests. Ten metro stations are shut down to stop people from moving. Trouble is that rage is letting the villains off the hook. The government will pass tougher laws, a couple of the rapists will be hanged and we will be back to normal. We should demand an end to the police state and the end of VIPs. Hang politicians. The real villains.