Justice Delayed is Justice Denied
1.The slowness of Indias court system can be stated with an example (i) The trials in 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts (ii) The recent 26/11 2008 Mumbai blast case. 2. ....So what will be the condition of Ordinary cases from common people ....There are over 40000 cases backlog in the Supreme court alone...3,287,037 civil cases and 7,04,214 criminal cases are pending in various high courts in India
Primary causes behind Laws deLays
(i)
Inadequate number of judges
(ii)
Incompetence and inefficiency of judges Absence of work culture
(iii)
Fact File: Dec 3, 1984. Some 500,000 people are exposed to
poisonous gases in the state capital of Madhya Pradesh, India. Between 5000-8000 people died immediately and thousands over the years from long term illness. More than 100,00 remain chronically ill in Bhopal today. The water and soil of the area is still contaminated.
Wheres the justice for innocents who still suffer?
Fact File: Aug 12, 1990. A promising 14 years old tennis
player, Ruchika Girhotra, is molested by the the Director General of Police Shambhu Pratap Singh Rathore in Chandigarh, Haryana. Ruchika on the other hand is expelled from school (maybe because Rathores own daughter was Ruchikas classmate), false cases filed against her father and brother Ashu, the brother goes to the the prison and is tortured, her father is suspended from his job on false charges of corruption. Ashu is released a day after her suicide, the sole witness (Ruchikas friend Aradhana) gets harassed with threatening calls, false cases filed against Aradhanas parents, her father too suspended and demoted and eventually given premature retirement. After 19 years, 40 adjournments, more than 400 hearings, and a promotion for Rathore, the court did find him guilty but could only sentenced him to six months imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1000. Within 10 minutes he got the bail and was smiling. What about the innocent smile that was lost forever?
BABRI MASJID DEMOLITION
Fact File: Dec 6, 1992. A mosque in the city
Ayodhya of Uttar Pradesh, India, is destroyed by a strong crowd of 150,000 people. The police stood a mute spectator! More than 2000 people die across India in the riots that follow.
The Justice Liberian Commission set up by the Government of India to investigate the demolition, took 48 extensions and 17 years to submit its report. The report itself has nothing new to offer. What a waste of public money and time.
Godhra Massacre
Fact File: February, 27 2002. 59 Hindu passengers are
burnt alive in a coach of Sabarmati Express in Godhra, Gujarat, by a alleged Muslim mob. In the resulting riots more than 1000 (by official estimates and 2000 by independent sources) people, mostly Muslims, are butchered. The violence is covered extensively by the Indian media.
The cases are still being probed. Only a handful of the large numbers of accused have been found guilty and punished. No wonder there are some 30 million unresolved legal cases in India. The police-politician nexus has to be broken for the court to work freely. And until that happens the unresolved cases would only add up.
ATTACK
SABARMATI EXPRESS ARRIVED
ALTERCATION b/w PEOPLE
SOMEBODY PULLED THE CHAIN
STONES PELTED
WOMENs COACH S6 BURNED OUT
59 PILGRIMS KILLED
TRAIN UNDER SIGNAL FADIA
Fact File: March 12, 1993 Bombay bombing were a series of 13 bomb explosion that took place in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India. Coordinated attacks were the most destructive bomb explosions in Indian history. The single-day attacks resulted in up to 250 fatalities and 700 injuries. It is believed that the attacks were carried out in retaliation for the enormous Muslim casualties and widespread damage to the Muslim owned businesses and properties which occurred during the Hindu-Muslim riots in Bombay between December 1992 and January 1993, in the fall-out of the demolition of the Babri Masjid
Fact File:
New Delhi, who was working as a celebrity barmaid at a crowded socialite party when she was shot dead on 29 April 1999.Dozens of witnesses pointed to Siddhartha Vashisht, a.k.a. Manu Sharma, the son of Venod Sharma, a wealthy Congress politician in Haryana, as the murderer. In the ensuing trial, Manu Sharma and a number of others were acquitted on 21 February 2006.
April 29, 1999 Jessica Lall (19651999) was a model in
Following intense media and public pressure, the prosecution appealed and the Delhi High Court conducted proceedings on a fast track with daily hearings over 25 days. The lower court judgment was found faulty in law, and Manu Sharma was found guilty of having murdered Jessica Lall. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on 20 December 2006.
Jessica Lall
(1965-1999)
Manu Sharma
Born Died
5 January 1965 29 April 1999 (aged 34) Congress politician
Occupation Actress, Model
Venod Sharma Father of Manu Sharma
Some suggestions
(i)
Computerization of whole country judicial system.
(ii)
E-filling of cases New laws need to implemented in our constitutions
(iii)
