Judiciary’s Acquittal and Public Demand for Justice
Posted : February 27, 2006 at 9:30 pm [IST]
The acquittal of all the convicts in Jessica Lal case is shocking, and perhaps is a warning for all the common men and women of the country. Here is a country that boasts of all big values and age-old culture of law and justice, but where any persons with deep purse and in category called ‘celebrity’ can escape after committing even a heinous crime such as murder in presence of hundreds of empowered and respected but shameless cowards of the society. The same respectable people are among the witnesses that have ‘gone wild’, as they call it. And our judiciary can’t do anything or doesn’t want to do anything, even if all circumstantial evidences narrow down to the person who is son of a big political gun or goon. Are we a nation of coward people? Time and again, the story gets repeated with names off the heroes who are the villains in reality changed.
And less we talk of the police better it is. If the police personnel concerned are offered sufficient remunerations, they can go to any length to get one acquitted. In Jessica case, the empty bullet got changed. Who did it? Who did see that all the witnesses go wild? It must be the work of the father of the culprit or the police itself might have brokered that. That was the reason that we find the concerned SHO getting all plump postings thereafter and the judge getting promotion after his judgment.
For the first time in the history of India, as I know, the media has created a people’s movement demanding justice for Jessica. Media is agog. People through SMSs and e-mails are creating a stir that be revolutionary. Can it be called a digital movement for justice? The parliament is reverberating with the demands for justice from all parties. Some may be shedding only the crocodile’s tears. Most of them belong to the class of Sharma and Jadav. Have you heard DP Jadav the rogue politician talking on TV news channels? The people’s movement for justice for Jessica is unique but it must not remain limited to this case only. Jessica was a celebrity herself to certain extent. Who will take up the cases where the victims are just commoner who have only footpath to sleep?
But I am afraid of two things. How long the media can sustain the demand for justice? Will it forget about it, once the court admits the retrial?
I may be a little extremist in my approach, but perhaps some laws of Islamic countries can only be the right deterrent in a condition that is prevailing today in our country. Perhaps, a relative of Jessica Lal should be given a revolver and asked to shoot the culprit in presence of the common people including those who were there on that night. Media should put the photographs of the culprits including the policemen, witnesses that have ditched, and the judge too in some one-page ad free of cost in public interest. The society must discard them rather than owning them. The father must be ashamed to own such a son. The sister should feel ashamed to get a ‘rakhi’ tied by such a brother. The society must take some responsibility rather leaving every thing for police and judiciary.
Unfortunately, the convict and the famous SHO are Sharmas, calling themselves Brahmins. Why can’t they feel ashamed and declare themselves outcast or Kasais (butchers)? Perhaps even the butchers will also protest if they try to join their class.
- Indra
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