ENEMY OF THE STATE OR A VICTIM OF HIS FATE

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.