The case of Ramesh Mhatre, Shiv Sena corporator in Kalyan-Dombivli, burgeoning twin cities near Mumbai, and his accomplices assaulting on-duty doctors in a municipal hospital this week re-opened the phenomenon of powerful politicians taking the law into their hands against doctors, teachers, and bureaucrats. It is a reprehensible trend and deserves the fullest condemnation from all quarters. Mhatre and his accomplices were arrested after the video clip of him slapping the doctors, including a woman, went viral and left the Devendra Fadnavis government with no choice but to take stern action; he was admitted to a hospital immediately. It is the playbook that the powerful now adopt to escape time behind bars, but,........

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