... The Commissioner has been making the admission from the very beginning. It occurs in his first report, it occurs in his second report and he repeats it in his third report that it is useless to depend upon the Scheduled Castes themselves to vindicate their rights. They have neither the economic independence against their oppressors nor have they got the means to prosecute their oppressors.

(But) the Commissioner does not ... emphasise (what) I know very well myself from my experience for twenty years that in a large number of cases the police force is in league with the caste Hindus. Ninety per cent of the police force is drawn from the caste Hindus. Only a few per cent and a very small one is now being recruited from the Scheduled Castes but this only to the posts of police sepoys. The result is that the upper grade policemen are in league with the caste Hindus. More often they refuse to record the complaints of the Scheduled Castes when they go to the thana, in their station diary even though the offence may be cognisable. They throw them out ... and tell them to go away ... and ... if they do, they probably would conduct the investigation in such a slipshod manner that ultimately the case fails. In this situation I ask the Home Minister ... whether the breaches of the law which are being reported and witnessed by Scheduled Castes or other people are not breaches of the fundamental law and the fundamental rights? Are not fundamental rights part of the Constitution? If you are allowing a large mass of bullies and hooligans to trample upon the fundamental rights, are you not bringing the Constitution to contempt? Is it not your duty to create a special department either within the Home Ministry itself or separately for this purpose? The United States has got a judicial department, the duty and the function of which is to see that the Constitution and the Federal laws are respected. I think it is high time that the Home Minister realise that if the Constitution is to function, if it is to be the law of the land, if all people are to recognise it, his duty is to see that it is enforced, and the only way in which he can enforce it is to take upon himself the duty of enforcing it and not leave it even to the State Governments ... not even to the Police who has no desire to do it, and not even to the Scheduled Castes who have no means to do it ...                                                      (Source: The Dalit Voice, 16-31 August, 1998)