The Muslim people, being the victim of the minority-psychology-fear in the 82 percent Hindu dominated India, immediately feel threats from the presence of the police force in similar situations. Their fear has proved to be the fact whenever the police dealt with the Muslim students or Muslim universities, campuses, political demonstrations or agitation against the police brutality. It has been found in a number of cases that the police have felt free in misusing ammunitions against the Muslims than that of the Hindus in any parts of the country. It is also found from the victims in general that the police make many unusual and selective abusive and anti national remarks against the individuals belonging to the Muslim community. Any police deployment or the composition of the police station with the personnel belonging to one religious community in the Muslim majority area practically turns into communal armed forces. In other words, police seems to be corrupt in general. But to the majority of the Muslims, the police force also seems to be communal. It would not be erroneous to mention that the police can be called inefficient when the Muslims call it for their protection. But the same situation may not happen if the Hindus call it for their protection against the Muslims.

Such examples are many which can prove the Indian police and the reserved forces being prejudiced against the Muslims in general. This can raise many valid questions among different quarters ranging from the people to civil society, political parties and the human rights activists. The powers of the police under the Act of 1860s and later amended acts followed by different states make the Muslim minority more vulnerable in the present context of the ethnicisation of the Indian State. There are many places like the courts, railway station, trade-fairs, markets, highways, airports, bus depots, seaports, mixed residential areas, etc., other than the police stations where the police force need to represent the Muslims on the basis of the principle of ‘proportionality’. This will have very positive impact on the Muslims as confidence building exercise.