Dehradun, May 2 -- With the swift communication tools available to people nowadays, the challenge for the forces of law and order to respond with the required speed has become even greater. The old protocols no longer work, there cannot be a bureaucratic approach to the problem. One example of this is the disturbances that took place in Nainital, where violence broke out in the streets following the rape of a minor by an elderly man, who happened to be Muslim. It took no time at all for the issue to take a communal turn. It has been reported that the DM and SSP left it to their subordinates in the hill town to manage the problem and arrived at the scene much later, when things had taken a turn for the worse.
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