Monday, December 7, 2009

17 years later

It has been 17 years since secularism, one of the founding principles of our land, was smeared with an indelible scar and the wait to bring to book the hatchers of the conspiracy which shook one of the fundamental pillars of India continues with agony giving way to despair and now a complete hopelessness.

The Justice Liberhan Commission's findings though delayed and long drawn have been a bold step forward and at best could only act as another precedent but a deterrent to anyone with such vile intents? This should take some time getting an answer to, lest there is another commision set up to look into the findings of the Commision set up to report on the demolition of the Babri masjid.

Taslima Nasreen aptly depicted the plight of hindus in countries where they were in minority. That Sangh's ideology did not care about their fellow devotees from lands afar is another farce of their beliefs. This has led to a series of 'fundamentalist' tussels resulting in great lose of lives and national property. And the Sangh still blatant in their denial of any wrong doing, in fact claiming their demand to be in sync with 'modern' India with their outworn ideas, does cut out a sorry tale.

On the 6th of Decmeber the state of UP awoke to Hindu fundamentalism, a phenomena hitherto,associated with extreme Islamists. A havoc created, which has been proved now to be 'meticuluosly planned'. The rath yatra that led to a destruction of such magnitude that shook the entire country was led by 'leaders' who were to be donned with the impending responsibility of running the countryand fortunately the country has been saved of the ignominy of its continuance.

17 years on and we are not anywhere close to justice than where we had started from. The 'indicted' leaders are leading a cozy and luxurious preparing for a life post-retirement from active politics and at best a perhaps little miffed at not being at the party's helm till now. Now that they have been away from the public eye, their antics in Ayodhya have perhaps faded in the long list of undoings that have happened in the more recent past. Lets hope law does have long memory and the acts that make a mockery of what our country's principles are appropriately punished.

Justice delayed is justice denied is probably the oldest juducial cliche. Let this not be delayed further else people would lose faith in law being the paragon 'leveler' and the guardian of our constitution.

8 comments:

  1. nicely analysed shashank...
    Justice delayed is Justice Denied..true..refer to Bhopal Gas tragedy..25 yrs and still justice is awaited...it takes a decade for the perpetrators of crime to be punished ..and this happens in India..and yet we say..India Shining..
    a lot needs to be done, transformed, executed..and certainly, we are no where near Justice...

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  2. @ Pritwish..i agree that it does take time for simple things to get solved in our country but its we who are delaying it...If KCR can fast for eleven days and get himself sanctioned a seperate telangana state...anything can happen.Where we fall short is the grit and determination we have to execute!!

    P.S shashak..sorry to use this place as a discussion forum..!

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  3. @Prithiwh
    Thanks for stopping by..
    The tragic event you speak of is as good as forgotten except for those who have suffered and continue to do so and the agonising pain for justice continues. The person resposnible for this catastrophy was happily out of the country barely hours after the incident. Justice must be fair, equal and timely to have the desired effect..

    @Madhu
    That is infact gr8. :).I wouldnt mind that

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  4. The Liberhan panel report on Babri Mosque demolition is a politically motivated. This report is totally baseless and contrary to the evidences. The Commission had indicted Vajpayee, who was not even summoned once to depose, which went against the principles of natural justice.The report should be committed to the dustbin.

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  5. The Liberhan panel report on Babri Mosque demolition is a politically motivated. This report is totally baseless and contrary to the evidences. The Commission had indicted Vajpayee, who was not even summoned once to depose, which went against the principles of natural justice.The report should be committed to the dustbin.

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  6. I would disagree Anuj. The law of our land is founded too firmly to be influenced by the petty politicos. The Liberhan Committee did just what it was set up for. Investigate and report. And to assume the kar sevaks to have indulged in such a heinous act on their accord without having been provoked and with no thought put in the well-organised carnage would sound too hollow a claim.
    As for a putting it in a dustbin, I am sure you find better objects to satiate your desire to find trash than an effort of 17 years which if anyone who prides in secularism of the land would have attempted, would have delivered even a verdict on 7th of December 1992.

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  7. I would like to rectify Shashank. If respect for minorities was essential for secularism, "reverse discrimination" which denied the religious aspirations of the majority community was not inclusiveness. First of all our law is 100% influenced by politicians. If it would have been so firm then why Shibu Soren is out of jail? Why Sajjan Kumar and Tytler are moving around like they have done a brilliant job ? Why the molester of Ruchika former Haryana DGP Rathore has been awarded only six months of RI? Rathore was instrumental in getting the case delayed for such a long period.FYI not a single commision right from the Independence of India till date has produced a right report. The party who is ruling at centre forces the commision to make changes in the report for political gain. And that’s what congress has done. Nobody will be astonished if we see Liberhan as Governor of a state in coming time. While the leaders of the Congress government, which was in power at the time of Babri mosque demolition, have been given a clean, those of the BJP and VHP have been indicted. It is a "national joke “and a rambling collection of unsubstantiated charges. Liberhan had been "picked" for the job as "there are two kinds of judges, those who know the law and those who know the law minister". The commission itself recording lack of evidence nailing BJP leaders but still indicting them. Tabling the report at this moment is a part of a well planned conspiracy to save certain persons including the then prime minister P V Narsimha Rao whose role during the Babri mosque demolition in 1992 also came under cloud. Once again I will highlight the same thing that the commission has indicted some persons whom it never summoned for questioning like the former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The site on excavation established that Babri was built upon a Vishnu temple and the inevitable changes of course of every river, including the Saryu, by which Ayodhya, the capital of King Ram, is identified. The report, apart from its obvious deficiencies of naming some and omitting others of guilt for the demolition, using party ideology and not individual acts of omission or commission as the basis for accusation, has committed some strange anomalies. Thus Vajpayee has been accused but not Narasimha Rao whose constitutional duty lay in protecting the mosque. If a benefit of a benefit has to be given, why was it not given to Vajpayee? If personal belief is to be the basis, the personal belief in favour of building Ram temple at Ayodhya could not be equated with the act of forcible demolition of a mosque.Justice Liberhsan seems to have entered the slippery grounds of personal beliefs in the field of sociology. He seems to equate Hindu sentiments with a political party. Hindu beliefs are much wider than is expressed in political acts but are generally peaceful and tolerant. While a good many grieved the vandalism at the mosque, a good many, especially the young, celebrated it. And Liberhan has no bloody rights to comment on ideology of BJP and RSS.

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  8. I am amused and beginning to love this.
    "Rathore was instrumental in getting the case delayed for such a long period."
    If anything else the law does not take time to vhet its fancy to enjoy leisure. That probably expainls why the case of Kasab is running till now. Were it for the maniacs he would have been hanged the minute he came out on the streets. The law unfortunately does not averse to such fancies. Had that been the case the credientials of our being a democracy would undoubtedly be questioned.
    "Why the molester of Ruchika former Haryana DGP Rathore has been awarded only six months of RI? Rathore was instrumental in getting the case delayed for such a long period".
    You seem to be pretty sure of what happened between the two then.
    He got a sentence befitting his crime. The law is blind in its disposal of justice. If so much agrieved it would be better to change the law itself to accomodate all our emotions and values.
    How about a pickpocketer being given a life sentence or being hanged till death?
    "FYI not a single commision right from the Independence of India till date has produced a right report."
    It almost makes me laugh at such a blatant assertion.
    The not too thin line between myth and reality is not to blurred to escape notice. The law goes not by people's beliefs and myths but by what is written in the book.
    And the reason you give certainly does not warrant a demolition of something held as sacredly as you do your beliefs and values by a different though not significant group of people.
    There is more I would like to write about what you think.
    I'll put it down here asap.
    Cheers!

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