Janata Curfew - Deception or Gimmick

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"Janata" Curfew?

Call a rose by any name; it would still smell sweet. What is a "Janata" curfew? One called or organized by Janata - ordinary people? One would imagine so. However, if it is curfew imposed by a call by the PM which, bureaucrats interpret as an order, (remember a king's cry, "Oh who would rid me of this man?" and what his loyal servant did to the poor man.) and proceed to threaten people with dire consequences including penal prosecution and imprisonment, then it is no longer the janata's curfew, but the order of a king who is the Law. The police commissioner has threatened, as reported by a leading English daily, to arrest those who are out of their homes on Sunday and argue with the police. 

Arguing with the police is a crime in Orwell's "Animal Farm". I did not think it is in a democractic India.

Remember, the Sun King - Louis, the XIV? - "I am the Law". 

Here's - pasted below - my open letter to the Police Commissioner of Bangalore.

Is the "Janata Curfew" compulsory or voluntary?

 
 
 
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Saturday, 21 Mar 2020
Hello Sir,
The 'Deccan Herald' quotes you as saying that "People will be arrested if  they are found on the streets."
This is "Being more loyal than the king"!
People may have to go to hospitals or bury the dead or attend to the sick and invalid - home care - etc. 
Are you leaving the discretion to cops on the road?
Did the PM say that the "Janata Curfew" is compulsory? 
Is the corona virus infectious only on Sundays? 
Will or can the PM or you stop people from coming out on ALL days? 
Sections 269 and 270 of IPC are applicable ONLY " if a person does an act - in this case going out of his house - which he knows or has reason to believe to be likely to spread any disease dangerous to life --" Or if he does so malignantly. 
What reason would a person have to know that he is likely to spread a disease? Unless he knows that he is infected and he is out there willfully spreading diseases? In the case of corona virus, the incubation period being two weeks the person will have NO symptoms before that. 
I am sure that you have been misquoted. 
Please correct it and kindly give publicity to the correction to avoid unnecessary harassment by police.
 
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Regards,
 
Mathew 
 
 
 
 
 

 Please follow the link below for the news story in the 'Deccan Herald" of Saturday, 21 Mar 2020