You are a police officer. One day you get a call from a lady saying that she, her husband and her family are facing a life threat from her father as she had run away from home a few days ago and entered into an inter-caste marriage of her own free will. Her father and entire family are angry with this marriage and have threatened her that they will not leave her, her husband and her in-laws alive. She tried to register an FIR in this regard in the concerned police station but the officials there did not register her FIR. She is now hiding in some secret place with her in-laws. She may come to you if you promise to protect her, and then she hangs up. As soon as the lady disconnects the call, you get a call from your senior officer that his niece has run away from home and got into an inter-caste marriage of her own free will. Due to this, his family has been humiliated in the fraternity and he considers it a stigma on his family. He and his family want to take revenge from all of them. They have come to know where these people are hiding at this time. He orders you to arrest her husband and the entire family from the place told by him and implicate them in such a false crime that they cannot even get bail and their entire family remains in jail for years. You are not against inter-caste marriages and you oppose him, then he also threatens you that he has your Annual Confidential Report (ACR) with him and if you do not obey him, he will make adverse entries in it, as a result, your promotion due this year will not happen.
- In the above case, which ethical dilemma is being faced by you?
- What are the various courses of action you may take in this situation?
- Write down the pros and cons of the course of action you would take in this case.
1. The ethical dilemma i have faced is to save a girl from threat given by her family who is threathend by her own family due to intercaste marriage and as a police officer i want to save her from that on the other hand girls father who is my higher officer threatened me to not to save a girl of you do you will lose the Job.
2. In this situation I can save the girl without knowing the girls father. Someone life is more important and nowadays intercaste marriage can be acceptable and take that girl family some save place.
If her father find out i save her i am ready to loose a job because someone life is more important. Someone action can ruin the whole life her and her family.
3. I can save her from her father and take her and her family to somewhere safe without knowing others.
If her father find out i save her i might loose a job
If i handed girl in to her father her life become miserable and her husband family will be suffered lot of issues and because of this i get promoted and extra perk.