# Indian Police Act: British Rule and Claims About the Right to Self-Defense

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2097217314328604830
- Source account: [@RahulBredi](https://x.com/RahulBredi)
- Source language: Hindi
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:00
- Published: 2026-11-11
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aQLnRORXiFGq/en/indian-police-act-british-rule-and-claims-about-the-right-to-self-defense) The second was a law the British made, the Indian Police Act, They made the Police Act. It said that No Indian should ever do anything against the British.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aQLnRORXiFGq/en/indian-police-act-british-rule-and-claims-about-the-right-to-self-defense?t=7) To kill, beat, suppress, and crush them, they needed an agency to control them, so they set up a system called the police.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aQLnRORXiFGq/en/indian-police-act-british-rule-and-claims-about-the-right-to-self-defense?t=13) You know, before 1858, there was no police in this country.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aQLnRORXiFGq/en/indian-police-act-british-rule-and-claims-about-the-right-to-self-defense?t=17) No king had a police force. They had an army.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aQLnRORXiFGq/en/indian-police-act-british-rule-and-claims-about-the-right-to-self-defense?t=19) There was an army, not a police force. Because there was no need for the police.

[0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aQLnRORXiFGq/en/indian-police-act-british-rule-and-claims-about-the-right-to-self-defense?t=23) Who would kill, beat, suppress, and threaten their own people?

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aQLnRORXiFGq/en/indian-police-act-british-rule-and-claims-about-the-right-to-self-defense?t=25) Who does that? What king would commit such atrocities against his subjects?

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aQLnRORXiFGq/en/indian-police-act-british-rule-and-claims-about-the-right-to-self-defense?t=29) But the British created the police and named it the Indian Police Act, and the principle they laid down was that every police officer would have the right to offend.

[0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aQLnRORXiFGq/en/indian-police-act-british-rule-and-claims-about-the-right-to-self-defense?t=36) No Indian citizen would have the right to defend themselves.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aQLnRORXiFGq/en/indian-police-act-british-rule-and-claims-about-the-right-to-self-defense?t=39) Meaning, any British police officer could grab you by the throat any day and start beating you with a baton.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aQLnRORXiFGq/en/indian-police-act-british-rule-and-claims-about-the-right-to-self-defense?t=42) You won't even have the right to hold a baton.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aQLnRORXiFGq/en/indian-police-act-british-rule-and-claims-about-the-right-to-self-defense?t=44) You just have to keep getting beaten. And if you grab that police officer's baton to defend yourself, a case will be filed against you for stopping a British officer from doing his duty.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/aQLnRORXiFGq/en/indian-police-act-british-rule-and-claims-about-the-right-to-self-defense?t=53) You know, this law granting the right to offend, under the Indian Police Act, is still in force even 62 years after independence.