This is an unedited draft from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Why do ordinary citizens across the country have to stage public protests to demand justice for the victim of a heinous crime at a Kolkata hospital? If we peel away the extraordinary brutality and the political dimension and get to the core of the matter, we find that people have no confidence in the law enforcement system. It was the same in Pune a few months ago, where people had to get out onto ...
