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Democratic Indian (n/a)     26 September 2011

Beaten to death for refusing to give bribe in u.p.

CHANDAULI (UP): A truck driver was on Monday killed allegedly by Road Transport Office (RTO) staffers after he refused to pay bribe during a vehicle checking drive in Naubatpur locality in Sayyadraza area here, police said.


Anant Lal Gupta (50), a native of Kaushambi district, was allegedly beaten to death at around 5 AM by some members of the RTO staff, Superintendent of Police Shalabh Mathur, said.

According to the victim's son Ashwini (23), who worked as a cleaner with his father, "One of the constables of the RTO Department took the vehicle for weighing at the weighing centre and found that the truck was not overloaded, but demanded1,000."

His father was willing to pay only 500 after which the RTO constables and one Shiv Kumar of the weighing centre beat him brutally, causing his death, he said.

After the incident, angry locals jammed the National Highway-2 in protest and turned violent, pelting stones at the police when they tried to disperse the crowd, Mathur said.

A police constable was injured in the incident and the police fired in the air and lathicharged to control the situation, he said.

An FIR has been registered in connection with the incident, Mathur added.

Source https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Truck-driver-beaten-to-death-for-refusing-to-give-bribe-in-UP/articleshow/10126503.cms

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This is what happens when people are deprived of arms to defend their own life. Only the criminally strong with the monopoly on power of violence rule over them. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is our Fundamental Right guaranteed to us under Articles 19 and 21 of the Constitution, let us respect and protect it by all means: https://www.lawyersclubindia.com/forum/RKBA-guaranteed-under-Articles-19-and-21-of-Constitution-36011.asp

 

He who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honor by non-violently facing death, may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden.”--M. K. Gandhi

"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." --M. K. Gandhi

 

"Both the oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of arms." - Aristotle

 

"Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved."- Aristotle


‘‘The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest possible limits. ... and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.’’— Saint George Tucker, Judge of the Virginia Supreme Court 1803

 

‘‘To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them...’’— Richard Henry Lee, 1787



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Sh. P Suresh (For To By Green Kindness Perpetuity Selfsustainability Always)     13 October 2011

The spirit of this post is well taken.

 

I fully endorse that police force, for that matter pErmanents in governMINT per se are definitely corrupt, burden (who should be shot at without mercy). 'Fence eats grass'. It should be punished.  That fellow should be dismissed outright and should be stripped of all his property, earnings etc to be passed on to the victim's family.

 

Nevertheless, I only wonder what will happen if this literally happens in day to day society, where all and sundry own weapons.

Democratic Indian (n/a)     13 October 2011

Originally posted by :P Suresh
" I only wonder what will happen if this literally happens in day to day society, where all and sundry own weapons. "

"Any people that would give up liberty for a little temporary safety deserves neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin


Arms are a basic human right and fundamental right. Nothing negative is going to happen. Blood will not start flowing on the streets. Disarming the people and keeping them ignorant of this most basic and important right is the clever trick employed by the corrupt and undemocratic people all through the ages. This has been going on from day one under one excuse or other.

 

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves."  William Pitt in the House of Commons November 18, 1783


There are many parts in the country where almost all people own weapons. In Kodagu district of Karnataka Coorgs are keep guns without any kind of license nder Arms Act. Blood is not flowing on the streets. In Punjab, Rajasthan etc. it is common for the households to keep swords and other weapons. Blood is not flowing on the streets. Gurkhas keep Khukris. Blood is not flowing on the streets. There was no Arms Act applicable in Rajputana States during the British rule. Blood was not flowing on the streets.


Hence your fear is not based on any facts or truth but on personal imagination.


"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." - Alexander Hamilton


‘‘...for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.’’— Alexander Hamilton


‘‘Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.’’— Thomas Jefferson's "Commonplace Book," 1774-1776, quoting from On Crimes and Punishment, by criminologist Cesare Beccaria, 1764


Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence. The church, the plow, the prairie wagon, and citizen’s firearms are indelibly related. From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable. Every corner of this land knows firearms, and more than 99.99% of them by their silence indicate they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference; they deserve a place with all that’s good. When firearms go, all goes; we need them every hour.”-George Washington


“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.” - Thomas Paine


"The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become prey to the strong."  Thomas Paine


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