Law treating rich and poor differently

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SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL

07 October, 2010

THE SUPREME COURT verdict in the infamous Priyadarshini Mattoo murder case letting off the influential culprit Santosh Singh for an easy life-term was on expected lines because it remains a bitter fact that rich and influential in this country are never given capital-punishment.

Everyone knows that Indian jails are nothing but holiday-resorts for rich people, who are also at liberty for outings in name of easy-to-achieve medical advice. It will not be a surprise when son of the former IPS officer will soon be freed on basis of his ‘good conduct’. It was a well-thought decision of the girl having married Santosh Singh that her to-be husband was facing trial for the heinous crime, and as such it was improper for any deciding authority to take care of life of any woman having married Santosh Singh.

In contrast, 32-pages of file-notings received under RTI Act reveal about a case of a poor young man Ravji @ Ram Chandra, who was supersonically hanged to death in less than three years of murdering his family after crossing all stages of trial court, High Court, Supreme Court and mercy-petition decided in record six days by the then President Dr Shankerdayal Sharma even though no deciding-authority could establish motivation for crime, evidently the poor fellow had neither influence not money to get justice twisted in his favour!