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Unjust Humanity
Pooja Anand
Justice Unequal: Is law afraid of power and money? 05 August, 2011
The present corruption-filled conditions in India give hint of country moving from being under-developed to inhuman aristocratic rule and a form of Oligarchy where power would rest with only small number of people distinguished by royalty, wealth, family

ON JULY 28th Shamsuddin Fakruddin was convicted of a theft by a metropolitan magistrate. The verdict, instead of making him sad, gave him utter happiness as the verdict now declared him free. Almost an year back he was lodged in Tihar Jail for stealing a wallet containing rupees 200 and an ATM card. He has spent almost 12 months behind bars for an offense that carries a sentence of not more than three months.

After being denied bail once, he was granted bail three months ago, but he did not have the asked amount of rupees 10,000 in property needed for a bail bond. He changed his initial not-guilty plea to a guilty when he learnt that his father has passed away and he is required for performing last rituals. He said to his lawyer "I'll say I am guilty. I just want to get out. I just want to go home to my village."

Shamsuddin, before changing his initial statement, maintained that he did not commit any theft. He was charged under various IPC sections and sent to Tihar Jail for judicial custody. He was fortunate that his case came in the eyes of NGOs whose tremendous efforts to get him bail out has resulted in getting him out of the jail, though at the cost of admitting a crime which was actually he may not have committed. Does the judiciary, which has let him rotten in the jail for a period longer than he was eligible, has the guts to convict even a single corrupt politician or a bureaucrat who have mushroomed during last few years especially during unearthed scams such as 2G Spectrum Scam, Commonwealth Games Scam, Telgi Scam, etc.?

Do they dare to give them capital punishment or hang them by neck seeing the SIZE of their crimes? Looks like we need to pass this knowledge to our coming generation that once you grow up commit a bigger crime not just petty theft of Rs 200. Rest assured that once you commit a big crime, the same judiciary body would not give you even a single day sentence rather treat you with dignity and give permissions to take you for medical checkups to a five star hospital. In fact the chances are you might get an opportunity to contest election and become a chief minister and finally Prime Minister of India.

These days the qualification required to enter politics is not the economic and civic and public administration degrees rather how many police cases one has on its name and how much capable one is to commit scams. Seeing the present day scenario I would like to ask common man to be ready to get punished for a crime which he hasn't even thought of. If tomorrow a corrupt government official is caught on corruption or on some charges, one among the common man would be lucky enough to actually get caught and put behind the bars. Looks like India is not developing, with failure of Baba Ramdev's comment that by 2011 India would be a superpower, its going back to the ancient times. To the times where somebody from Praja used to be hand-picked, given a lucrative chance of earning some good amount if he agrees to get punished for a crime committed by the King or somebody among his cabinet.

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About The Author
A corporate lady working with one of the top technology companies, Pooja Anand takes up social work in her part time as a passion. She likes to be vocal about social injustice and inequality.
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Srikant
I am happy to see pooja's article, which actually summarizes and recaps us all those facts which we all indians know but the saddest part is no one knows the solution for this. It sometimes make me feel like cry and I believer this almost millions have done before me.So I really want to understand from all those who are reading this article. If they have some strategic idea which really can work for the benefit of all of us. I know it not as simple but I believe lets spread the word and make each of the indian think on the same lines as we are thinking and gradually chances are that it could create a revolution of thoughts and actions. Let us hope that what I can say-Srikant
Jagan jha
nice article
Pulkit
Let me start by quoting a line from your article "Do they dare to give them capital punishment or hang them by neck seeing the SIZE of their crimes? Looks like we need to pass this knowledge to our coming generation that once you grow up commit a bigger crime not just petty theft of Rs 200". May i ask who are you referring to when you say "they" politicians (policy makers) judiciary? but do you think they people are any different than "we" they have been elected amongst "us" and they represent "us". By "us" i mean the indian society. Its not about individuals but its the general mentality of our society. Help the powerful and rich because they could rescue you when you are in need. Help a beaurocrat and extend undue favours because having good relations with him is good for your business. But does that hold true when we are dealing with poor needful person! rather everybody should ask his soul do i treat a poor man the same way we treat a rich and influential person.The problem is really deep rooted pooja because we " the indian society" has become opportunist we all think the same way and act the same way, we can not single out individuals for doing the same when these acts appear in media and are subjected to public scrutiny!We all have to decide our own course and decide where we want to go and where we want to take our country and society!
popRsama
Ya.. its right Mss Anand we should fight agt this
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