26/11 Pangs: Did It Hurt Gafoor?

Well here's the news: Hasan Gafoor, Commissioner, Mumbai Police, has been transferred or 'Shunted' speaking in the regular Bureaucratic jargon. Taking a Peek @ facts:

1. Terrorists struck Mumbai.
2. Would have been no big deal, had it been some obscure temple in Banaras, but since it was Mumbai, which houses one of the two things India is known for abroad, Bollywood; it so happened that somebody's head was wanted.
(In case you are wondering what the other thing is: Outsourcing)
3. Obviously, Pakistan can't be touched.(Uncle Sam won't like that.)
4. So who will be the scapegoat?
5. Why of course the top cops! So A.N Roy, the DGP, had to go.
6.Nobody remembers the Mumbai attacks anymore.
7.Hey, hold on, a committee has been set up, Right?
8. Guess we will do away with the commissioner too, no sweat!

Fine! That quite put it into perspective, right?
But what about these two things: 1.Ethics, 2.Accountability? Police guys have been relegated to obscurity, where they might be dealing with Red Tape-bound hassles, but why did the Political leadership fail to find it's weak links? Why didn't the HRD Minister resign? Or the CM of Maharashtra? (He did finally resign, owing more to the pressure oopar se than anything else, at a time when they realised the electoral fortunes of the High Command were at stake.) Ironically, my sister's text book wants her to know that Lal Bahadur Shastri resigned from Railway ministry when a random accident took place. Overkill? I will fight tooth and nail it's not. And c'mon, let's just see a fraction of that coming from these guys.
The other point worth mentioning is the current state of Indian Bureucracy. Leaving alone Corruption talk, even asking for humanity, level-headedness and character seems too much. Do we have a system that takes only invertebrate people? Or does it manufacture them? Why can't they stand up and demand the same fate for their Khadi-clad mastrers, as they are ordered for? It's an early childhood memory that Grampas would cajole and inspire kids to be IAS and IPS officers or (sic) 'Collectors'. Wonder if this 'Collector' word was taken too literally.

Anyways, this is not getting nowhere. A trial has been started which will go on sine die. Committees will Probe issues, then new committees will probe older committees and still newer committees will probe committees that probed other committees. (Care to find out what happened to Godhra victims? Or '84 riots' victims?) Status quo will be maintained.

And yet another news occupied a non-descript corner in an interior page in some local newspaper: " 17 Cops Slain by Naxalites in Jharkhand and Orissa".
Nobody reads. Nobody cares.