Rape Manual for Cops

I am happily borrowing the great columnist Roberts Clements' byline in the 'Indian Currents'.
TOI recently reported that ...."Soon a manual for cops to handle sexual assault cases...." will be ready. I dread to think how the hardened individuals in the police force will interpret the new manual according to their own leanings and preferences. You can give a cop Kakhi but you cannot change the baaki ( rest of him).
Well, close encounters with the battered women through women's organisations have made me cynical and I can truthfully reproduce scenes from the stage they call the cop station. The cases of domestic violence are invariably brought before the Mahila Mandals and routinely referred to the cops. The poor complaintant receives predictable treatment by the keepers of the law.
" Kashala aali ikde, tula laaz nahi vatthe ? Maarla thar kaay zala...tuja pati parameshwar hai na tho? Kai thar chook keli aslel, monon maarla asel......" drawls constable Pandurang propped up with his legs on the table without even pausing to look up at the bleeding woman, busy scrutinizing the stuff he has unearthed from his broken teeth with a piece of a broom stick! Though before him stands a badly bruised victim his jaundiced eye can only take in the sight of a nonconsequential bai with chapped hands and an old saree daring to rebel against the lord and master who maintans his woman and provides her shelter in his zopdi. Being a man, is he not entitled to a drink or two and roughing up his woman once in a way?
That the said woman works herself to the bare bones from dawn to dusk in 4 houses scrubbing floors and utensils only to hand over her total earnings to the man of the house and gets beaten up for her troubles is of no concern to the Pandu who would probably do the same thing if given a chance!
How will such a macho man respond to the manual that dictates to him the terms of 'rape'?
" Aisa tho har jaga hota hai, apun pictur madhe bagithla nahi ka? Aisa patela sadi pahanke kuch nakra karegi tho koyi na koyi thumare oopar toot padta hai ki nahi?"Judgement has been passed at the very first stage of the law-keeping process.
So they have to compile another manual to decide who broke the law under the circumstances, rapist or the victim because the cops will be undecided as long as Patriarchy reigns supreme in Lalu land! Manual or no manual.....