Karthik H

karthik.h.krishnan@gmail.com

BLOOD IN THE UNIFORM

Perversion of Justice has touched its nadir. In India, the law seems to exist only for criminals to escape and for the lawyers to fatten their coffers defending them. In a television debate on Times Now, Ram Jethmalani had the cheeks to say the system cannot be changed just for the sake of one Ruchika.
From Jessica to Ruchika, it was a long tale of miscarriage of justice because the guardians of the law perfected the art of shielding criminals by adeptly destroying evidence. Officers who destroy evidence were promoted and even awarded gallantry medals.
So the trials went without conviction – from Jessica Lall to Priyadarshini Matto, and the raping of Scarlet the British girl to the German girl whose rapist, the son of a DIG, is now absconding. `The law will take its own course’, assured the political brass, whenever no action was intended.
The common man is bedeviled when he finds what the whole world knows cannot be established in a court of law and almost often the criminals go scot-free on flimsy technical grounds. His agonizing suspicion is recaptured by The Times of India in its memorable headline: No body killed Jessica!
People staying across the house of the cannibal of Nithari have spotted Dr Kidney Kumar and the controversial nurse in his van parked in front of the den, signalling the fact that the children of the poor were killed and kidney robbed. Yet no channel or newspaper could report the matter because of the Draconian legal system operating in this country.
When the previligentsia treat the life of the ordinary citizen as cheap as dirt, the lessons of the French and Russian revolutions need to be retold. Will someone stand up and tell him, ``Shut up, Jethmalani. The life of each Indian is precious. If justice is not delivered by the Justice, people will force him to deliver justice, even by changing the system, which is a hangover of the colonial times.’’