Soon after a CRPF constable advocated violence against “anti-nationals”, this Assistant Commandant with the CISF stood up to stress on the importance of human rights in India.
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00:00Our actions under the name of national security are neither human nor right
00:03when our own people are forced to choose between a terrorist bullet and our pellet.
00:30The system of killing someone with the intention of self-defense against threat to life is
00:39a convenient methodology being used by the security forces as an arbitrary way of working
00:44with zero accountability in the garb of national security.
00:47Not a single day goes by when in some part of the country or another, an alleged gangster
00:51or terrorist is shot down, detained or mercilessly tortured without any proof that the amount
00:56of force used was compelled by the actions of the accused.
00:59Our actions under the name of national security are neither human nor right when our own people
01:05are forced to choose between a terrorist bullet and our pellet.
01:08Can we justify this policy of mayhem, as my worthy opponents like to say, collateral damage?
01:25Nobody wants to willingly become a terrorist, pick up a weapon, tie a suicide belt and blow
01:29themselves up.
01:30What my worthy opponents fail to realize is that the non-observance of human rights
01:33by the state and the security forces are one of the chief causes of militancy.
01:37Sarve bhavantu sukhina in the Upanishads, the live and let live of Jainism and Buddhism,
01:42that man is created in the image of God and has a certain dignity in the Bible and similar
01:46examples can be found in every single religion.
01:50The Honorable Supreme Court in the judgments of the DK Basu petition regarding custodial
01:53crime and torture, the PUCL petitions with regards to killing by the Mumbai police and
01:58the do's and don'ts with regards to AFSPA, has made it clear that the fundamental right
02:02to life as per Article 21 and right to equality before law as per Article 14 will override
02:08any compulsions of the state even while attempting to preserve the integrity of the Indian Union.
02:29There is not one single special economic zone in the JNK, the North Eastern states, Jharkhand
02:34or Chhattisgarh.
02:35Even after 73 years of independence, our prison occupancy rate is much more than our school
02:40occupancy rate and my worthy opponents say that human rights cannot be absolute.
02:44Honorable Chairman, terrorism has succeeded in destroying democracies when a nation state
02:48under the pretext of national security arrests without warrant, detains without justification,
02:54spies without reason and kills without conscience.
02:58The Honorable Supreme Court in the judgments of the DK Basu petition regarding custodial
03:00crime and torture, the PUCL petitions with regards to custodial crime and torture, has
03:02made it clear that the fundamental right to life as per Article 21 and right to equality
03:04before law as per Article 14 will override any compulsions of the state even while attempting
03:06to preserve the integrity of the Indian Union.