A flawed story of success
History has taught us that absence of justice may not preclude economic growth or the accumulation of wealth over the short term, but its absence will overtime undermine the very foundations upon which genuine prosperity needs to be build.
YOU CAN skip this story because it is almost an old one. A Gujarat police team had shot dead four people, including 19-year-old Ishrat, a resident of Maharashtra's Thane town, June 15, 2004 on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, claiming that she had been a terror operative who had reached the city to eliminate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The three other persons, who too had been shot dead by the police team were identified as Javed Ghulam Sheikh alias Pranesh Kumar Pillai, Amjad Ali alias Rajkumar Akbar Ali Rana and Jisan Johar Abdul Gani.
There are numerous dates and numerous incidences of violation of human rights. Let us forget them all for the time being but the last one in which the noose seems to be tightening around the culprits.
You could have skipped the other old story also, had the Supreme Court not made its presence felt. Sohrabuddin and his wife Kauserbi were allegedly killed in fake encounters. We will not talk about what happened to the body of Kauserbi.
There are numerous dates and numerous incidences of violation of human rights. Let us forget them all for the time being but the last one in which the noose seems to be tightening around the culprits.
Supreme Court of India has given its verdict in Sohrab murder case: Gujrat government has failed to conduct impartial investigations and attempted to mislead the apex court by filing conflicting action taken reports. From the factual discrepancies appearing in eight ATRs and charge sheet, we, therefore, feel that the police authorities of the state of Gujrat had failed to carry out a fair and impartial investigation as we initially wanted them to do.
It can’t be questioned that the offences of the high police officials have committed was of grave nature which needs to be strictly dealt with. Supreme Court has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe if there any larger conspiracy in killing and to submit the report within six moths for its perusal. Suspended DIG DG Vanzara and RK Pandiyan are the main accused in the case of killing of alleged gangster Sohrabuddin Sheikh.
Robert Fitzgerald, the noted Australian social scientist in his address to ‘Australian Centre of Christianity’ at Canberra made the following observations:
Today we shall look forward how do we balance our priorities and actions in order to ensure we can be a prosperous nation and just society. Throughout history empires, nations and societies sought to increase their wealth and have employed all means, corrupt and pure, to attain such goal. We have also seen the downfall of countless rich, prosperous empires and nation states, all of them believed their wealth was permanent and their ability to grow endlessly. However, in most cases they were also societies that had great level of inequality and injustice and high level of systematic corruption both within secular and religious institutions.
History has taught us that absence of justice may not preclude economic growth or the accumulation of wealth over the short term, but its absence will overtime undermine the very foundations upon which genuine sustainable prosperity needs to be built.
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