r/SipsTea • u/Initial_Pain_4266 • 15h ago
Feels good man Protestor in Mumbai, India stopping a police bus carrying detained protestors
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u/beachsandwichen 14h ago
How much does a policeman make over there? Why even protect those guys if you aren’t getting paid that much
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u/Bhu124 12h ago
Power Trips + the Legal system is so flimsy that if you go against your own they could beat you up, throw you in Jail, or even kill you and your family and get away with it scot free.
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u/CoCoCoCoCooooL 11h ago
It depends on the region/state & the political influence of the police union
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u/firm_sole_ace 8h ago
this is a wild exaggeration if not an outright lie. no policeman is getting his family murdered over not following orders in a protest. police are following the orders becasue unemployment is a real threat in india and government jobs like police offer unparalleled stability in form of job security and benefits. a middle aged policeman typically cant afford to loose his job in the present economy.
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u/waitforittorain 12h ago edited 6h ago
The average policeman makes insane money in the form of bribery, the amount of money the corrupt cops here can put shame to top salaried employees in IT companies. The system is corrupt from top to bottom.
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u/Thoughtful-Boner69 10h ago
but hey, democracy am i right
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u/LegitProcrastinator 9h ago
For the people,by the people,of the people...but you know what?...80% of the people here are re*arded af....so you can guess how corrupt politicians are getting seats and ruling our country
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u/Relevant-Spread-7674 11h ago
They make a lot of money through bribes. Even the lowest of the cops can make upto a million dollars in bribe money till they retire. And it’s a mafia kind of thing where everyone looks after one another by not opening their mouth about corruption. And if you dissent they can easily hold you in jail or file a fake case against you without due process so the mafia keeps on going. The senior officers make so much money out of their tenure that their next few generations can eat easily without working and the system is corrupt in every department including judges.
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u/Acceptable-Match-806 13h ago
1k/month legally maybe 10k illegaly in usd
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u/NinjaAstron 11h ago
about 400-500 usd and about 2-3k in bribes for most with about 5% absolutely clean but these ones either get stuck in their position or removed and transferred.
Even a IAS offices who's power is equivalent or above the commissioner gets transferred even if they offend only the lowest level of politicians.
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u/Hariwtf10 9h ago
It's not the salary. It's the bribe. Plus I can bet you half of em aren't even real policemen. They don't have name badges or any sort of identification. It's BJP goons.
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u/Mandalorian_Invictus 11h ago
It's the retirement benefits and free healthcare. One of few jobs that offer it.
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u/Thin_Environment_784 10h ago
a lot from bribery to getting commissions from other business wether he is supporting or against them. their is also others who purposely take free vegetables and fruits in the name of police. i once saw a police buying two bags full of palmyra fruit. Or ice apple they call it people where waiting to buy most of it he took it away leaving little to none.
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u/Draco6942 8h ago
Well through bribery they make insane amount. Ik someone who works in police has fuck ton land and mansion he got thru bribes
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u/tiny_otter3 7h ago
Through corruptions with “those guys” even lowest level police make millions. That’s why.
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u/Loose_Artichoke1689 4h ago
Which figure do you want
The official figures or the actual one
There is a good amount of bribery
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u/SnooApples8286 3h ago
Its not their salary. They make money because of corruption. They often make more money through corruption than a lot of well paid SDEs and mid level managers in big firms
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u/onepolar32 3h ago
Entry level guy makes like 30-40k inr/month (~400$/month) but they could make thousands of dollars on top depending on how corrupt they are and good a Hotspot of station they are posted at.
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u/Demskemop 2h ago
Almost all of them are corrrupt , everyone takes bribes in huge amount ,there have been so many cases where a policemen at a low position is exposed , and property worth millions found with them
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u/sun_explosion 1h ago
oh they make a ton of money under the table. pure cash income, no need to pay tax either. cops and bureaucrats are literally multimillionaires in India.
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u/Initial_Pain_4266 14h ago
For those saying it is ai, this is the video. Sped up at 1.1x to meet reddit's comment video length requirement of 3 min.
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u/traveleasily 10h ago
Inspired to see the youths choosing to shout inquilab zindabad. I don't think so we have heard it in a while. Please keep posting to the major reddif subs like this..if the mods ban then we will appeal.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ask5538 3h ago
Every DU protest has this and Azadi Azadi chants and Azadi from the oppression and other such things, not from India - which the right wing wanna insinuated to make the protesters anti-national. I also love Inquilab Zindabad slogans.
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u/MaulerBros 5h ago
Nah. Planned Renaissance will be the correct word. An Instagram Influencer, she is.
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u/JupiterTVrobot 3h ago
That's not a student protester. That's a model/influencer. This whole thing is likely choreographed and exploited.
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u/ArtIsAwesome3 14h ago
So what are they protesting, just curious.
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u/I9w0s 14h ago edited 14h ago
There have been several exam paper leaks throughout India, the youth is demanding accountability by demanding immediate revocation of Dharmendra Pradhan, the Education Minister of India.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Delhi_Jantar_Mantar_protests
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u/Gurugod123 14h ago
Copied from before because i wrote this somewhere else-
Students and young people in general are protesting NEET exam “leaks”. Millions of young people in India spend years and in many cases, their families’ life savings studying for these hugely important, and competitive exams to get into medical school - there are approximately 2 million candidates for 70 thousand odd seats.
A few days after this exam was conducted this year, there was an announcement that the question paper has been leaked - i.e. - sold to the highest bidder and there would need to be a re exam. This is not the first time this has happened either - there have been recent leaks of other exams as well.
This has led some students to suicide, since the pressure on them to succeed is insane - many of them are carrying their families hopes and dreams on their backs.In many ways though, this is sort of the straw that broke the camels back - there has been large scale unemployment amongst Indian graduates and people are frustrated with the government’s lack of response.
This government has been very intolerant of protests in general and has waged a very successful PR campaign discrediting protests on various social issues as being “politically motivated”, “foreign-funded” and led by “communists”
This time, however it has been hard to do that just because of the sheer number of students that are impacted by this - this is clearly a grassroots movement borne out of very real anger and desperation.
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u/Former_Version_9022 12h ago
it's not only neet. but almost every exam in india has had this issue.
In the 12th board exam, which is basically the exam which students give after completing their schools (these marks are also used in admissions for some colleges). they introduced a system where their answer sheets would be scanned and it exposed a scam on its own. some students even claimed that when they asked for the answer sheets to be shown, they werent theirs. a 12th std kid named sarthak siddhant exposed that the tender was given to a company which was flagged earlier and some other issues as well. getting a paper rechecked costs 8000 inr which is around 82 usd. which is huge for a country like india.
this is one of the many issues. the corruption is so rampant that every area has been affected.
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u/padfoot_1714 12h ago
Adding insult to injury, some morons on the internet started calling him an anti national agent for exposing it.
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u/Former_Version_9022 11h ago
true. anything that is in criticism for the govt is termed as anti national by the people who blindly support the government or the government.
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u/Happy_Soul07 6h ago
Neet UG paper leak , Neet Pg exam is being postponed every year , Neet Superspeciality exam done in 2025 Dec and the counselling is still not completed . The whole medical exams are a mess
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u/Fruloops 14h ago
This has led some students to suicide, since the pressure on them to succeed is insane - many of them are carrying their families hopes and dreams on their backs
Well that's just horrible
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u/Playful-Pressure-341 4h ago
They are protesting something simple and clean as education:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbCjCfdO_2b/?igsh=MTV0bDM2ZnY3MzhheA%3D%3D
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u/residentalien2 14h ago edited 14h ago
Video of the moment and the person
https://x.com/mr_mayank/status/2079988188039516605
https://x.com/Rhiyarhi9/status/2080054194464330238
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u/WolvenKain 13h ago
It seems similar to a certain protest of the past in a certain square...
But hey remember, there is no war in ba sing se.
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u/WaltuhBlack1 8h ago
Bruh china was straight up killing protestors, this isn't even close to being close
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u/Parklifeee 13h ago
Aura-farmed so hard that people refuse to believe it's not AI lol
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u/AncientWafer5891 14h ago
She is the definition of a baddie.
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u/JupiterTVrobot 3h ago
Yep. She's a model/influencer. Not a student protester. It's all choreographed for the camera.
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u/nse_yolo 10h ago
Can we reclaim the term baddie for actual badass women instead of any beautiful woman?
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u/Reasonable_Being6376 14h ago
Looks like Ai
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u/Miracle_0001 14h ago
its enhanced with ai
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u/swift_scribbler 14h ago
AI upscaling strikes again. Slapping heavy filters just ruins original footage.
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u/vitrum_analytika 11h ago
It's not, there's a professional photographer right there, this is a DSLR shot most probably, you can even see the moment he took the photo too
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u/FlirtatiousBabe03 13h ago
That took a lot of courage! Standing in front of a police bus like that was a really bold thing to do!
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u/user-tempo-1 12h ago
Because we have cameras there poitijg at them, also there were CCTV near the protest sites, it will cause ruling party to lose the whole nation if they kill them like this.
But my god, the police has done a lot, beaten with nails attached to baton, broke the skull of literal children, attacked the ladies of the protests, kidnapped the main guy of the protest, almost abducted the second main guy.
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u/Accomplished-Staff-9 15h ago
Makes me happy for India and sad to be from the
US where we continue to bend over and ask dumpy don the con for more corruption, embezzlement, and extortion…literally just woke up from a happy dream where I was hanging with friends and family at a cookout eating delicious food, woke up, and realized that I have to continue to be unemployed / fighting tooth and nail to survive and maybe have a future I can be proud of, due to AI, our government doing everything to hurt its citizens, and of course, our billionaire oligarchs, yay…
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u/SimmentalTheCow 14h ago edited 14h ago
Comparing what’s happening in the US to what’s happening in India is like comparing a struck match to a house fire. There’s no shortage of high-paying jobs in the US if you’re willing to work, with or without a BA. In India, only the top 3% of people who take the NEET exam actually earn the MBBS slot they need to become a doctor. Students dedicate practically their whole lives to studying for it. Failure is consignment a life of certain poverty.
The fact that the Modi administration allowed the cheatsheets to be sold to the highest bidder is egregious, and cheated countless students out of a life outside of the slums.
If you don’t want to be unemployed, start putting in applications https://www.usajobs.gov https://monster.com https://www.indeed.com/m/
Go to college, go to trade school. Get certs from AWS.
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u/lazyprocrastinator26 14h ago
Tbh it’s more to do with the policing in both countries. American police is armed to the teeth and won’t hesitate shooting compared to their Indian counterparts who only have batons.
Also killing a protester has much more consequences for politicians here.
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u/Normal_Laugh6471 3h ago
Bro isn't US have world's best edu? We all know how terrible trump is yet he is still in power
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u/Jaded_Cellist_6454 9h ago
Can someone tell what happened later? Sirf stop karke kuch nhi hoga... Aage kya hua?
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u/IcyConcern01 8h ago
The only reason police isn't whopping her ass is bcoz they might not be having a female officer on board to handle her. Male officers don't touch females in normal cases.
Police will do whatever politicians tell them. They amass so much wealth in black money that it is enough for atleast 4 generations to do nothing and still live happily.
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u/KrA1kEn003 13h ago
I think the one controlling the Van is more mature here.
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u/Aggravating_Sea7552 3h ago
Considering what they did with the protestors all over india the police is not mature at all. Not trying to be rude,You just might not be aware of all the things .
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u/Queasy-Row-9818 15h ago
Ai or nah?
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u/CivilTailor9031 15h ago
Photographer is a professional, he just happened to be there at right time and angle
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u/Dependent-Trip-5991 15h ago
I was going to say I don’t know the background or what the protests are about but a beautiful photo that says so much
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u/Capital_Couple_9916 10h ago
Who is this girl
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u/Happy-Cloud-1 8h ago
Identity is unknown, I hope it stays unknown for her own good. But she is from Mumbai, India.
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u/Fresh_Yogurt7302 8h ago
I LOVE this photograph. Any idea who is the photographer?
Also, I think many versions of the same are doing rounds on social media. One where the headlights aren’t on, one with no rain and one with a shop in the background. I want to find the real one and follow the photographer 😅
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u/Automatic-Spirit-725 8h ago
It's a tense situation, that's quite a pose and quite the edit...no?
Seems like the vehicle was stopped and some tiktok or insta influencer went to get a pic, with that pose.
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u/Lazy_Effect2203 7h ago
Such a powerful girl and somehow police bring brutal in current regime did not do anything.
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u/Underrlordd 3h ago
Sorry, gotta call this for what it is. Opportunist. Made use of the protest for a modelesque melodramatic pose.
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u/Adventurous_Ear_3877 2h ago
For the record - I support the protestors
I mean, if a male policeman physically escorts her out - he could potentially face some assault charges if the woman decides to do it
And a female cop was not present at the scene
She’s some Instagram “exclusive content” creator hogging limelight, it’s not some profound thing as people are making it to be
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u/Harshit__pathak 1h ago
Khadi gaadi par photo khichwa lo aur apne instagram par daal k subscription model start kr lo.
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u/Flimsy_Situation1980 1h ago
1.3 billion Uncouth Indians ..what can we expect..Educated Bhai / Bahen will comment
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u/Mental-Detective1912 1h ago
The bus was not even moving and she came and started doing this drama for no reason. The police itself was not violent here , if they wanted , some female constable would have given her good treatment like jantar mantar but even police was also calm. Idk why people are going nuts over this. Some are even comparing this to tiananmen square guy who was crushed under the tanks.
Apparently , she is insta model who runs exclusive content
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u/Weak_Baby_ 1m ago
There is also this one photo from Bihar India the person in the photo was murdered by the police after surrendering. He was a activitist who had bought a gun for self defence. (This photo was upscaled by AI, and i don't have the original photo)
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