Monday, October 1, 2007

Due process of law on Thin Ice

Pick out any newspaper publish in India and you will find instances of vigilante justice being handed out by people. This new type of behaviour has risen to such an extent that even the Chief Justice of India has remarked that peoples faith in the Indian courts has gone down due to SLOW PROCESS OF LAW
People on the street have taken on themselves to be the new Robinhoods of society. This has already and will eventualy if not stop now led to Rule of the MAN rather than LAW.
Recent cases will come to light the tv sting (Teacher involved in Human Trafficking ) in Delhi wich led to riot, etc.

Crimes commited by sane people, do have their side of the story, a person my be guilty of crime but what drive him to do such a thing greed,necessity, etc. The reasons can be many that is why in the light of Natural Justice his story is to be heard by the Judge.
Many people involved in handing out vigilante justice are making mockery of the Due process of law.
The foreseeable solution is the Pyramid Effect, to start at the top and the rest will follow, frist ones are Politicians, Senior Police officials who do not take action, Judges who for no reason dely the hearing.
One can see the writing on the wall, where it takes more than 10 years for (Uphaar film hall) case to move into Frist appeal from trial court, and other countless trials which are still pending. one doesent need to be Einstine to fig it out that criminal punishment is insufficient or nonexistent to the crime commited.

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