How or why do people get away with so much destruction of public property, murder, rape, communal/terrorist attacks and other such crimes? And...importantly, why doesn't it matter any more, unless a *celebrity* is involved? Is our law administration system flawed? Most of the crimes seemed to fall into a particular category and a pattern is soon visible - that of belonging to one of the several cases where, if I dare say, Indian law seems to be failing! These thoughts plagued my mind whenever I came across a disturbing article in the newspaper. I never intended to pen-down these thoughts, but had to give a way to the constant mounting disappointment in me.
Read this article : After 36 years of misery, a fresh hope of death
The first thought that crossed my mind is why the hell did the culprit get only 7 years of sentence? Isn't the crime he committed as serious as a murder? In reality, I believe,its worse. He caused the poor lady to not have any life of her own, banished to a mere ward bed for about thirty six years. What kind of justice system is this? Directly or indirectly, isn't it in the criminal's favour?
Kasab's case is one more saga of never-ending twists.Only God knows when the victims' families would get some respite and when his *trial* comes to an end!
A brief search on the net tells me that the average age of a criminal case(i.e. from the time of committing a crime to the culprit getting punished) is somewhere between 5 years to 40 years or more!! Unbelievable, isn't it? Well, with such a law administration system as the backbone for providing justice to its people, I'm sure countries like India can promise only so much.
Quicker resolution of cases and stricter punishment to those who violate the Law may hopefully,bring in some good changes to the system.
While our great politicians strive hard to break this country into tinier bits and pieces, let us only pray that some common sense dawns on them sooner or later. Then probably,we might have bills passed in the Parliament for amendment of the Law Administration in the country.
Fingers crossed!
