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        The poorest of the poor have no protection in this country, nor the Dalits who are at the mercy of the upper caste goons. What was exposed in Nithari (Noida) is a slap on the cheek of the police and the administration under which it works.

        Children had been sexually assaulted, killed and their bodies, cut into pieces, before being buried. There was no relevance to any sophisticated presumption that the killings aimed at profiting by trading in human organs. Skulls recovered indicate a gory spectacle which one associates with genocide.

        The perpetrators of these crimes were sexual perverts who killed their victims to hide their identity. This ghastly business had been going on for a sufficiently long time and the parents of missing children lodged complaints with the police to no effect. It should be because criminal investigation has low priority when compared with maintenance of law order. That is perhaps an insufficient explanation.

        In this allegedly egalitarian welfare State, social and monetary status counts for the most to be assured of personal security and quick punishment to transgressors.

        In the Nithari episode, the police refused to register serious complaints. The belated action of suspension of some constables did not serve as exemplary punishment because the lower level minions would be only as efficient as their higher-level losses.

        Not a day passes without violation of the modesty of Dalit women who would be paraded naked to strike fear in the heart of potential complainants. Such violence is not easily punished even in the case of girls of the middle class except after the hue and cry raised about their victimisation and murder provoked universal rage.

        Feudalism because extinct at the turn towards modernisation of society but feudal atrocities continue even today. It is because poverty makes people voiceless as also those whose bread or job is insecure. Crimes of the wealthy do not get diminished. As in the case of the poor as also in the case of people from the middle class who cannot challenge their masters, fear of losing the job or an overweening of shame silence protests.

        Education is supposed to help but the government is more particular about 'purifying' school textbooks than in facilitating the setting up schools within easy access of villagers.

        All this is overlooking the survival of the primal urge that sustains the oldest profession in any country, namely, prostitution. Unseen brothels function even in respectable residential localities not without the support of some of those in the law and order machinery who are susceptible to bribes.

        Cases are not rare of collusion between the police and brothel runners and, sometimes, some policemen themselves are caught in the act.

        Immorality outside straight prostitution is not uncommon in the middle class and high society. In the former case, housewives are keen to earn supplementary income to improve status while, in the case of the latter, permissiveness which is mistakenly received as freedom gets the blind eye for a depraved offenders. Indeed sex slavery differs only in the type of compulsion behind it.