Encounter! with an Arrogant and Abusive Policeman

This is what happened just today, while i was on a train journey from New Delhi to Lucknow.
I was waitlisted and so didn't have a reserved seat in the train. I stood at the entrance of one of the coaches for a while, and then reluctantly went to sit on an upper berth,which is usually vacant during the daytime. I was busy reading a book untill I heard some noise from below.....it seemed tht a policeman(not in his uniform) had come in and rudely asked one of the younger guys to slide in and make room for him to sit. He asked an elderly man to show his ticket(who actually had it) so disrespectfully, I was amused at his actions of indecency in full public glare.....he was talking so loud, as if he was the master and everyone else his servants.
He kept on speaking rudely to that old man saying "I'll throw you off from the train, what'll you do then? Varanasi is still 600 kms away." Ihat crazy man was really in need of tasting his own medicine, and I wanted to deliver it myself.....I said that the person has a genuine reserved ticked and the middle berth belongs to him. To this, he said that he should sit on the middle berth then, it is illegal to sit on someone else's berth. I felt like hitting him when he said this. That stupid fellow was sitting ticketless at other's seat and preaching lessons to others. But instead I replied to him that during daytime, one can sit on the lower berth whenever one wants. And he safely chose to ignore my comment. I too gave up and went on to read my book. And then the real story began........
He struck up a conversation with another ticketless traveller.......he was more bragging than talking. He started by saying my daughter is drawing a package of 12 lacs and I ask her to travel only by air or in A/C coaches when travelling by train but i still like travelling in the regular coaches...and this, when no one asked him anything in the first place.
Then another traveller also came into the act my son is a pilot...he earns 10 lacs a year.
The policeman said "so what? my daughter just got a 10 lakh-car for me and spent 3 lacs of her bonus on her brother's wedding. "
I could not believe i was listening to two adults talking like two proudy brats.
Then came the real part, someone mentioned that these days the guys in private sector are earning much better and earning their money legally too, unlike corrupt govt. officials.....and the policeman joined him saying yes, the postal system is the most corrupted one(targeting the old man who had during the conversation mentioned that his son was working as a post master).

Then a man who was quiet all this time spoke and said that police are the most corrupt, giving various accounts and narrating a few incidents......which infuriated the policeman, he went on to blankly say that, yes policeman take bribes, but they take it only after solving the cases n tht too from the criminals(what a reason!, who else wud pay them?) and did not trouble the general public. he then asked the guy about his background......he was mr. some malik and worked in the irrigation department. Then mr. policeman started saying that the iriagtion department people loot the public, thay sell crops n wood illegally and make huge amounts on black money by robbing the general public. Mr. Malik was obviously hurt by this and objected by stating that he was honest and all the allegations made on irrigation department officials were false. the policeman got irked at this and started using abusive words(the usual mother n sister stuff) in front of women co-passengers. He even went to the extent of saying that the punjabis (mr. malik was apparently a punjabi) came hungry and poor ("bhookhe nange") and we fed them and now they are taking away all the money of India...they're stacking huge amounts of illegally earned money. He said punjabis are all cheats and frauds and repeatedly mentioned that 'poor,hungry,fed' thing. I was raging from inside at this, I felt like asking are they not a part of India? and did you feed them? but since I didn't want to get into all this mud-slingling I chose to mind my own business...which was very difficult with all that going on. he used such ugly words for the man, the ugliest possible in hindi.....and there were small children and ladies too in the compartment. the man seemed to enjoy his 'bravery' of publicly abusing another man(who remained quiet through all this). I really wished someone to getup and thrash that man like anything.
Finally after 30-minutes or so, the policeman's station came and he got off....abusing again while leaving. Though I try very hard not to use any bad words for anyone, "Ass hole" is what came out of my mouth when he passed by my seat. He didn't hear that though. :D
I have always hated the policemen in India.....I am yet to come across a policeman with values and respect for the general public. I guess everyone changes when they get into police. Don't understand why do they think so high of themselves. Why do they forget that their prime duty is to serve people and help them? I often admire watching the police of other countries on TV.....on how they behave with the citizens and how respectfully they talk to people
...sometimes even with the suspects. And come to think of India, u'll get more troubles rather than any help from these policemen.
I sincerely hope that the Police reforms take place soon and in the right sense too and may better civic and moral sense prevail in the people of our country! I also hope that the fake sense of pride at their kids earning six figure salaries diminishes and the narrow minds open enough to understand that casteism is like a plague to a country and people should respect each other's feelings.
I am still dejected when I think of such people who care for none but self and would go to any extent to downgrade a person for cheap self-satisfaction. What right do they have to hurt someone else?.....emotional torcher is as bad as a physical abuse...sometimes even more painful!