Communal riots and Indian Police, a factually well-researched and well-documented book by former IPS officer Vibhuti Narayan has exposed that policemen have always played a very prejudiced role in most of the communal riots that caused mass destruction of Muslim lives and properties.
The remarkably low ratio of Muslims in police forces is a primary cause of nurturing of such communal prejudices among the police. If this Muslim ratio in police force could reach a little bit satisfactory level, it would work against the unbridled poisoning of the minds of the police rank and file. As there is a constant fear that any partiality in action may immediately result in a counter reaction from others, the book concludes.
Perhaps due to these reasons, the ruling elite, belonging to any political party whomsoever, resort to formulating policies and regulations in such a way, that Muslim candidates could hardly find any access to police force, except for some rare inductions. Without any exception, all political parties have been successful in achieving their goals to keep Muslims out of police force, otherwise, why from independence to the present time, the ratio of Muslims in police force has either always remained lowest, or has kept decreasing as the time passes. It also implies that Congress too, along with BJP has served as merely a tool for the RSS; otherwise Muslim average must increase rather than be remarkably so deteriorating towards the end as to become extinct.