When I read about how a youth’s body was nonchalantly dumped on the roof of police station and left to rot and decay for nearly two years while his poor family ran from pillar to post to get his body released so that they could give him a decent cremation, I started thinking about the policemen who did this inhumane act. They were not the high and mighty, but ordinary people like everyone else, why did they misuse the power? That too against someone whom they knew will never retaliate in any manner whatsoever.

Same is the case with school teachers who beat their students sometimes causing injuries which cannot be cured, why because they know students and their parents are totally in their control so they are free to punish them in any manner as per their whims. So what if the student looses an eye or become hearing impaired for life or worse even die. The more severe the punishment more their ego is satisfied.

Even the Dowry act becomes a tool of implementing severe hurt and mental trauma in hands of few undeserving females. The Protection of Aged faces the same problem.

It is not that all humans are wrong and misuse the power they have been given but the few, admittedly a handful take undue advantage and cause untold miseries to their victims, is there no way that this misuse of power can be checked.