Our approach to justice is not straight forward, it is a long winding process with 13 years taken just to get hold of (Abu Salem) one of the henchmen of the mastermind of the 1993 bomb blast- Dawood Ibrahim. What was the point spending so much of time and resources in bringing him back to the country – a country where political parties like Apna Dal were at one point of time ready to give Abu Salem a ticket to stand for assembly elections. Did we extradited him from Portugal to punish him or to make him rule us? Is there a dearth of people entering politics today?
We are living in a nation where the level of politics has fallen to the pits.
A nation where a dacoit (Phoolan Devi) who should have been behind bars, not only gets pardon by the honorable Chief Minister but is also made an MP.
A nation where the CM and the MLA`s have multiple criminal charges against them.
A nation where the distinction line between the politicians and the criminals is getting blurred day by day.
A nation where the court of law fails to get the actual criminals and terrorists to book, because either they settle in our enemy state or make a carrier in politics, so the only option with which the judicial body is left with is to catch the soft targets like the celebrities and make an example of them.
Mumbai, 12th March 1993, where in just few hours the history of our country changed forever, we were shaken out of our complacency and brought face to face with the ‘real world’. A nation so vulnerable to terror in its most hideous form. Affecting the lives of thousands of people and the younger generation still haunted by the very thought of it.
There is a popular saying that- “Justice delayed is justice denied”. Justice delivered after so many years loses its meaning for both the accused and the victim (who by now seemed to have lost their faith in the judicial system of our country).
Considering the facts before us we are forced to believe that our judicial system is just making a pretense of delivering justice-
With the main accused still at large,
60 out of 123 of the accused out on bail,
None of the 32 police officers and men named in the Shrikrishna commission reported to probe riots have been convicted,
Senior politicians who instigated riots like Sena chief not touched,
The STF set up in 2000 to re- examine 1370 cases has reinvestigated only 15, filled only 8 in court,
FIRs are still being filled, 13 years on.
Accused number 117, Sanjay Dutt has been accused with charges like ‘Conspiracy’ under section 120(B) of the IPC, Possession, destruction of unlicensed arms under section 125(1)(A),
Abetment to crime under section 3(3) of TADA and Possession of unlicensed weapons under section 5 of TADA .
He has already spent 18 months in jail with the only fault of his being that he was the ‘chosen one’ by Abu Salem to hide weapons in his house, had Mr. Salem chosen someone else, today Sanjay Dutt would had been a free man.
So according to me accused number 117 should be exonerated and the court should convict the main accused and do away with habit of making the celebrities an example of.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Sunday, September 10, 2006
WHY RAMANI AND NOT MANU BEHIND BARS??
What ever Ramani may or may not have done, she did not murder Jessica Lal and that is the only thing that the SET needs to remember. It was appointed to investigate murder and not forgery.
With the arrest of Bina Ramani last week it can be safely said that Manu Sharma will get away with the murder twice. There will be no justice for Jessica Lal because the Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up to establish a new case against her killer has turned the investigation into a tragic farce. Ramani is one of the only three witnesses who have dared to identify Manu as the killer, others being her daughter Malini and husband Georges Mallihot and the police seem determine to break her or there was no need for the non bailable warrant that resulted in her meaningless arrest.
The SIT is supposed to be investigating murder and gives us instead charges against Ramani that by no stretch of the judicial imagination merit incarceration. But this is India, so the man who killed Jessica because she refused to give him a drink now runs his own bar in Chandigarh and has a farther who is a minister in the Haryana`s Congress Government and Ramani goes to jail for allegedly forging some document and running a bar without a license. She has already paid a fine for her unlicensed bar and her bar is closed for the past seven years, so where was the need to arrest her if not to intimidate her?
Jessica`s senseless, tragic murder should have been an open-and-shut case. From day one Jessica`s murder was treated on par in the media with Ramani running an unlicensed bar and when she was arrested last week, most of the media asked no questions as if the arrest was somehow justified. I have concluded that the lack of sympathy for Ramani comes from her being a ‘socialite’ , a celebrity of sorts while Manu Sharma is only a good, little middle class boy gone bad. Otherwise surely, there should be more outrage that a key witness is in jail while the killer walks free.
Surely there should be more outrage that his father, Vinod Sharma, continues to be a minister in a Congress government. I emphasize Congress because please remember it is our only political party headed by someone who prides herself on always taking moral high ground.
Thus Jessica Lal`s murder case is yet another mockery of the Indian judicial system.
Source- Tavleen Singh`s article (Indian Express dtd- 10th sept)
With the arrest of Bina Ramani last week it can be safely said that Manu Sharma will get away with the murder twice. There will be no justice for Jessica Lal because the Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up to establish a new case against her killer has turned the investigation into a tragic farce. Ramani is one of the only three witnesses who have dared to identify Manu as the killer, others being her daughter Malini and husband Georges Mallihot and the police seem determine to break her or there was no need for the non bailable warrant that resulted in her meaningless arrest.
The SIT is supposed to be investigating murder and gives us instead charges against Ramani that by no stretch of the judicial imagination merit incarceration. But this is India, so the man who killed Jessica because she refused to give him a drink now runs his own bar in Chandigarh and has a farther who is a minister in the Haryana`s Congress Government and Ramani goes to jail for allegedly forging some document and running a bar without a license. She has already paid a fine for her unlicensed bar and her bar is closed for the past seven years, so where was the need to arrest her if not to intimidate her?
Jessica`s senseless, tragic murder should have been an open-and-shut case. From day one Jessica`s murder was treated on par in the media with Ramani running an unlicensed bar and when she was arrested last week, most of the media asked no questions as if the arrest was somehow justified. I have concluded that the lack of sympathy for Ramani comes from her being a ‘socialite’ , a celebrity of sorts while Manu Sharma is only a good, little middle class boy gone bad. Otherwise surely, there should be more outrage that a key witness is in jail while the killer walks free.
Surely there should be more outrage that his father, Vinod Sharma, continues to be a minister in a Congress government. I emphasize Congress because please remember it is our only political party headed by someone who prides herself on always taking moral high ground.
Thus Jessica Lal`s murder case is yet another mockery of the Indian judicial system.
Source- Tavleen Singh`s article (Indian Express dtd- 10th sept)
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Answer the Call....
We all were made to learn a pledge when we were in junior classes - India is my motherland and i regard all indians as my brothers and sisters, i love my country and i`m proud of her rich and varied heritage....As an indian i am very much proud of my country`s rich heritage, but the fact that does`nt makes me proud is the one characteristic that can be found in all - we all are a part of the blame game.We always somehow or the other are able to find someone on whom we can transfer the blame. Be it the Government, an organisation or an individual.
World War II ended in 1945 and the post war condition of the European countries was even worse than pathetic. Their economies were shattered and in Germany one loaf of bread cost a bag of money. But Germany of today has undergone a complete transformation. They have collected the pieces and rebuilt their nation. All those prementioned countries are world powers today with their economies soaring high . India achieved its independence just two years after the prementioned war and just a fornight ago we celebrated 60 years to the 'Freedom at midnight`. We had and have much more resources, man power and land than those european countries but in these six decades what have we achieved?? Many say that we started from zero (the very beginning) and thats the reason why we are lagging behind, but let me remind them that the countries i mentioned earlier started from much below zero (their post war conditions were even worse than ours). Countries which are not even 1/10 th the size of our one state (for example Malaysia) are ahead of us by leaps and bounds (that too in a span of fifteen years) why?? how??
Few of us blame the government, politicians and our corrupt system responsible for our present condition, but we have to understand that these politicians are up there because many of us dont even take the pain to go and vote(That is the only time when the ball is in our court, but we choose to let it go and later blame the government).
It is we the people of india who constitute that corrupt system.
The bureaucrats and the goverment officials -the ones blamed for the corrupt system are a part of our society, so what needs to be changed is OUR mind set.
We today desire the scenario of the country to change, but are we ready to change?? Breaking laws is like in our blood or may be its our birth right.
How many of us wear an Helmet on two wheelers? i dont
How many of us drive at 40km\hr ? I`m always above 60.
How many of us have given an exam for our driving liecense?
These are very tiny and unimportant examples when we talk of national interests, but the point is that we still blame the authorities responsible for the above mentioned acts of ours. We all think of roads as a big garbage dump and then hold the muncipal body responsible for its condition.
Oil for food scam - Congress blames Natwar Singh (though all of us know who is the one responsible)
The case of the terrorists who were appointed for PM`s security ...the Delhi police and the SPG blames one another.
The farmers commit suicide , people blame the government, government blames the rains, the rains could`nt blame anyone.
When the government sanctioned money for these poor farmers it actually did`nt reach them because of the middlemen(who again are one among us)
Even Rajiv Gandhi said that ' IF I sanction a rupee for my people, then what reaches them is 10 paise`. Again the middlemen doing their job.
The price of petroleum is touching the sky, the Government holds the world prices responsible, but our prices only accompany the world oil prices on the ascendent journey but never on the way down. It is now that the world prices are going high , but for so many years the goverment has been taxing the common man to cover up their own extravagances (20 cars per VIP caval cade), spending a crore rupees on a months tea by a state, and jaunts abroad on the slightest pretext.
All of us say "Is desh ka kuch nahi ho sakta" ...yeah right kuch nahi ho sakta, unless we do something and when are we planning to change things??
All of us say "Is desh ka kuch nahi ho sakta" ...yeah right kuch nahi ho sakta, unless we do something and when are we planning to change things??
What are we waiting for- Gods reincarnation??
Why do we indians are in the habbit of bowing down and tolerating things??
Why to just wait for the saturation point and then wake up??(like in the case of the Britishers, a few thousand men ruled over lakhs of us and that too for 200 years).
Why do we have the 'Chalta Hai` attitude??
As shahrukh Khan said in Phir bhi dil hai hindustani-"Mera desh mahan, siruf sochne aur bolne se nahi hota"We have to make an effort to make it mahan.
What makes our 'Desh mahan` today? Population?? Unemployment?? Corruption?? Highest Crime rate??or the sleeping population for whom everything just `Chalta Hai`.
"There are two ways of living, one is to close your eyes and leave things as they are, or second to take the responsibility and change things" -from Rang de basanti
"You must be the change you want to see in this world" - Mahatama Gandhi
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