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Thurs 25 Feb 2020

            SS MINDSET

The responses ( hardly any) to the last edition dealing with the SBT mindset indicate that it has created  quite some confusion among readers. Somehow, the actual message sought to be conveyed seems to have been lost in the middle of naughty acronyms being used.

It has now become a NATION WANTS TO KNOW MATTER after intervention of learned counsel, brother Gurvinder asking a pointed question. In the interest of maintaining peace and harmony in this group, Hon. Santa Singh has issued the following statement  about the Parwanu episode : -

 While the SHO with his Swayam Bhakt Thanedar attitude saw a case fit for prosecution under the severest sections of the law available, Santa Singh with his Soul Searcher attitude questioned this perspective because according to him no crime had been committed by the accused girls.According to him, the police should have adopted a more humanitarian approach.

The above para illustrates the difference in the approach of these two Schools Of Thought in this episode and the same is visible in their respective approaches in the matter of the Sensational Basic Toolkit. One suggests severest charges to be applied while the other indicates a more humanitarian approach.That the acronyms used by the reporter bear some resemblance to certain individuals is purely co-incidental. 

Now reverting to the Parwanu episode, SS questioned the intentions of the SHO in releasing the guys whom he accused of being a menace to society at large while taking the girls into " protective custody ". When Santa reported the incident to his C.O., the first thing the CO said was - " OK. Now tell the whole story- the SHO's version, your version and the truth". Santa was shocked that his own version was not being accepted as the truth even  by his own CO. That showed Santa how tough it would be for him to convince anybody else, espescially in the face of the exaggerated version of the SHO. But Santa also saw clearly that there was more to the incident than  what had been told to him by Capt X. When it was all over, he checked further and got these details. Capt X's father, a retired Brig ran a small industrial unit in Parwanu ( Himachal ) . The younger son and he commuted daily to their factory from Panchkula. With the introduction of checkposts post Op Blue-Star, there had been some minor altercations with the SHO due to his high-handed behaviour and he jad been ticked-off by the retired senior officer. Ever since that, the SHO had been waiting for an  opportunity to hit back and saw his golden chance when he got the report of the jeep with the girls going uphill. He simply waited to nab them on the way back. Capt X, who was incidentally a married man, found himself in a really tight spot.All he wanted was the whole incident to somehow blow over and save him from embarassment in front of his family- a weakness in attitude eagerly spotted and latched on to by the SHO. The younger brother was more spirited and put up a fight. As for the girls - they had committed the crime of daring to go out for a ride in the hills with these guys, consuming some beer and listening to loud music in the process. Initially, the SHO's intention was probably to make the retired Brig cringe in front of him, but when he saw that the girls were defenceless, he had other ideas.

Aside from that,the C.O. awarded 9/10 to Santa in his very next ACR under the column - moral courage and integrity. Since that time, Santa never hesitated to voice out his objection whenever and wherever he saw injustice.

The Hon. Santa Singh hopes all questions have now been answered he may be permitted to relax in peace.