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The Punjab Police has launched its new monthly magazine Darpan. Darpan means a mirror or a looking glass, but the police don’t need a mirror to look into. It is the person who has been disfigured by the police who needs to see himself in the mirror. I guess the DGP of Punjab, Mr S.S. Virk, is all set to prove that even the police has a great feel for literature. If under tremendous pressure, the cops can pen an FIR, why can’t they pen an article for Darpan? Eminent Punjabi poet Surjit Pattar is on the advisory panel of the magazine. He feels that beneath the tough exterior of the police lies a soft heart. I guess he’s right because with the right amount of kharcha pani, you can see the tough exterior of the Punjab Police officials melting. DGP Virk feels that there is a great divide between the people and the police. The magazine will help to bridge the gap. But how do we get to the public reading the magazine? In one such police station in Punjab a man had been arrested for stealing a scooter, but he just wouldn’t confess. When the police had finished subjecting him to different degrees of torture, the inspector had an idea. He asked the constable to
try out the 4th degree of torture. "And, sir, what is that?"
The inspector said, "Bring Darpan and read out an article
from that." The victim yelled, "Stop. I admit that I have
stolen the scooter."
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