HOUSE OF THOUGHTS (HOT)

People were taken aback a couple of days back when NDTV revealed what’s happening behind the scene in the BMW Hit & Run Case! People involved were Mr I U Khan (the PP), Mr R K Anand (the defense & sitting MP of Upper house), Mr Sanjeev Nanda (the main accused) and Mr Kulkarni (witness).

It was very shocking that the Public Prosecutor & the Defense lawyer were colluding against the victims! Of course they are denying their wrong doing and as per the law of the land, THEY ARE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY!

What could be the reason (the main thing)? Unreasonable delay is the main one. For nearly 8 years this case has been under hearing in the court. This is in spite of the fact that sufficient SCIENTIFIC evidence was presented by the prosecution side. Why the accused cannot be prosecuted based on this evidence? May be the court doesn’t want to! A million dollar question!

When there is enough forensic evidence, the court asks for witnesses. When there are enough witnesses they ask for forensic evidence.

Mr Kapil Sibhal, in his response to the telecast says that “This is not surprising for me. Everybody in this field knows what is happening” (Para phrased). If people in power, know about this, why appropriate action is not being taken? Are we sending you to the parliament to chit-chat and do walk outs. Instead of talking over the television that JUSTICE IS CRUMBLED, why cannot people in power take action? May be there is no incentive for them to spend their time here – yeah, what return do they get on the invested time!

Just to through some numbers on the pending cases in India (source:Hindustan times)

Over three million cases are pending in India’s 21 high courts, and an astounding 26.3 million cases are pending in subordinate courts across the country.At the same time, there are almost a quarter million under-trials languishing in jails across the country. Of these, some 2,069 have been in jail for more than five years, even as their guilt or innocence is yet to be ascertained.This has been revealed by official figures emerging from the home ministry’s department of justice, under a Right to Information Act application placed by a citizen.

I hope the readers gather what is the gravity of the situation. A citizen (rather a poor citizen) cannot approach his constituency’s MP or MLA (‘coz of the attitude they have), cannot take legal course (‘coz of the time it takes to get justice!) and cannot approach civic bodies because they are equally corrupt or inefficient to handle the person’s grievance. What to do in this situation? Who will come to the citizen’s rescue? What happened to RIGHT TO RECALL the candidate? Should the citizen be empowered to SACK a corrupt employee of government?

[I am being cheesed off by these elected representatives attitude. Example Mr RK Anand, he is an MP and the lawyer representing the accused! It is not wrong in representing the accused but colluding to get him acquitted is the appalling thing.]

My last thought on this: What do school teachers do when the students don’t behave properly? …………. you know the answer!