Perhaps time has come to accept that our religious practices have to be reoriented in keeping with the times.

Under normal circumstances, the police would have swung into action immediately after the complaint was lodged. But the accused has been airing his views openly against the alleged 'misuse' of the POCSO Act.

This ordinance is bound to put the fate of senior echelons within these two agencies in a churn.

Like the Odisha government of Naveen Patnaik has shown, states can be enablers by providing infrastructure to clubs and associations but staying out of management.

By hyping up cases of terrorism, we are actually doing a disservice to the foundation of our police system, which has strived hard to maintain peace and law and order.