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Suicide In a shocking incident a 25 years old woman named Sarita, committed suicide at the Haryana Police Headquarters in Panchkula on Monday June 9^th. It is said that she was allegedly raped by two policemen of Rohtak crime branch on April 10.She was being harassed by the police continually instead of registering a case against the culprits.

Victim Sarita had come to the office of the Additional General of Police (Law and Order) V B Singh along with her daughters to submit a written complaint. She submitted the written complaint alleging that she was raped by head constable Balraj Singh and constable Silk Ram and the police inaction against them. She alleged that when her husband was in police custody in case of a motorcycle theft she was called by both of policemen who raped her. But before submitting the complaint she had consumed some poisonous substance that she told to Mr. V B Singh.  

Police Inaction Speaking on condition of anonymity, a senior police officer told that Sunita had met SP, Rohtak and many other senior officers but instead of taking any action against the accused, police refused to register any case against them and they were even being shielded by it. No case was registered against them. It was only on May 31 that an FIR was registered against the two police officials on the basis of the complaint she had submitted to Additional General of Police (Law and Order) V B Singh on May 29.

Police’s ‘Force’ Police are for the ’safety’ and ‘protection’ of the society. It is very much stuck to its motto. Even today it works for ’safety’ and ‘protection’ of the ‘society’, the society of criminal elements. How whole of the police system of India can save the Indian society from the internal threats when it itself has become a threat. There was times when some police forces of some states were infamous for ‘fee’(bribe) but now it has become a preliminary course that maximum of the policemen do in the initial stages of their services but now the involvement of policemen in cases of murders, drug trafficking , abduction and many other criminal activities has become a common fact.

Overhauling If the present state of affairs continues then the Government of Indian will have to create another Police Force to investigate the ‘adventurous activities’ done by the policemen. Indian Police System is in such a dilapidated situation that it wants an overhauling at a huge level so that it can be purged from the impurities.

Lage Raho Munnabhai ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’ became the first Hindi film sequel to repeat the history of winning the award  as its prequel ‘Munnabhai MBBS’ had bagged similar honor in 2003. It was the undisputed winner of he year that has won four awards in the nations’ prestigious awards ‘54^th National Film Awards’.It won four of the awards in the categories of Best Screenplay(Raj Kumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Abhijat Joshi), Best Lyrics(Swanand Kirkire), Best Supporting actor(Dilip Prabhavalkar) and for the best Entertainment of the year.

Gandhian Values ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’ and the ‘Munnabhai MBBS’ was a serious attempt to familiarize the young generation of  not only of the country but also of the world with the Gandhian principals and the morals. The film was a hit not in India but all over the world. These to films had aroused the interests of the young generations in the Gandhian values that there were many instance when people used the Gandhian style of objecting to the odds.

Other Awards Dilip Prabhavalkar has also won the award for best supporting actor for the Marathi film ‘Shevri’. It was a double bonanza for him.Soumitra Chatterjee, the veteran Bengali Film Actor was awarded with the honor of Best Actor for his role in Bengali film ‘Poddokkep’ and the Best Actress award was given to the Tamil actress Priyamani for the film ‘Paruthi Veeran’. Best Feature Film Award was given to the Malayalam film ‘Pulijanmam’ directed by Priyanandnan. It is the film about the struggle between the exploitative forces and the resistors. Best Director Award was given to Madhur Bhandarkar for his film ‘Traffic Signal’. The prestigious Indira Gandhi Award for the Best First Film of a Director was given jointly to Madhukaithapuram for his Malayalam film ‘Ekantham’ and Kabir Khan for his Hindi film ‘Kabul Express’. Konkana Sen Sharma won the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in Hindi film ‘Omkara’.

Delay Because of delay in the announcement of the 2005 awards announcement of the 54^th National Film Fare Awards was delayed .It had happened because of the stay orders obtained by one of the jury members who had objected the criteria of inclusion and selection of the films for consideration of awards.