4th Nov 2018 10:11:PM Editorials
Eastern Sentinel Arunachal News

The 2nd Arunachal Scouts battalion personnel stationed in Bomdila, hedquarters of West Kameng district,  went on a rampage ransacking the police station, attacking cops and even the deputy commissioner on Saturday afternoon. All this because the police dared to detain two of their personnel who were harassing women in an inebriated condition at the Buddha Mahotsav festival there on Friday evening. This is a despicable act and should be condemned by one and all. Moreover, it saddening to state that a responsible officer like the Commanding Officer of the Scouts led the attack with more than hundred personnel, arms and including mounted vehicles. He needs to be arrested immediately by the civilian authorities and charged with stringent laws of IPC so that nobody will dare to act in such a manner in future.
It may be noticed that in the last couple of years such highhanded attitude of the armymen were more pronounced and in Bengaluru last year they attacked traffic policemen for fining them for breaking traffic rules. This is happening from Kashmir to different parts of the country where men in Army fatigues believe they are above the  law and their malicious actions should not be criticized.
The Arunachal Scouts is a brain child of former Arunachal Pradesh Governor Gen JJ Singh. Patterned on the Ladakh Scouts model, the first Arunachal Scouts regiment was raised to guard India’s borders with China, especially Tibet in 2010. They are a special forced trained in mountain warfare. And consider the fact that they are on the borders where impoverished, illiterate villagers live fighting constantly against nature for their livelihood in remote and inaccessible villages where even police force does not exist. If they  behave in such unrestraint manner in crowded places like Bomdila, one can only pray to god to save the innocent villagers from their clutches who masquerade as Indian army jawans. The state government should take up the matter with Ministry of Defence ( MoD will be celebrating Diwali with jawans on the Arunachal border on sixth and seventh) and see that the second battalion which created the ruckus be confined to the barracks till punishment is meted out to all the guilty


Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
      She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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