Let the truth prevail

The worst crime ever committed by a ruler is his or her discrepancy towards subjects while delivering fair justice, but today this crime is being publicly undermined by justifying political mandate in the elections or awe-inspiring partisan economic progress in the state. The perpetrators of these heinous crimes still rule us, lecture us about secular democracy, and even shamelessly claim that they are the legends that the entire mankind should follow their footprints. What could be more deplorable than this side of human hypocrisy that at one point the person who overwhelmingly shows his beliefs in a value, at a different point of time the same person leaves no stone unturned to break that value?

No one can forget that fateful night of February 27, 2002 when a group of terrorists torched a bogey of Savarmati Express in which 59 karsevaks charred to death. But again a matter of caution here whether this act of dastardly terror was a conspiracy of a sinister design of some communal groups is yet to be established under the court of law. Let's now examine the fallout of this dangerous act of crime. The state government rather than promptly deploying law and order machinery to action for nabbing these perpetrators of crime, the leaders of the state orchestrated a malicious design so that the community belonging to the victims can vent their anger against the other community by igniting the sparks of the worst communal riots after independence.

For last nine years the case has been investigated by a SIT being monitored by the Supreme Court. However, nothing substantial has come out through this investigative tribunal. This is the callous state of the judicial system in India where the delivery of justice is always delayed supporting the adage: justice delayed is justice denied. It's delayed so extensively that the incident is forgotten in the public memory. If we explore the high profile cases in India, it's quite evident from the historical facts that no case is ever resolved in a year or two, forget about months, India judicial system is so lethargic that at least a decade or more is passed in chagrin to reach at the verdict, which is again partisan, biased, and dictated by the ruling party.

Can India abstinent from such feudal mindset and rise above the political prerogatives to deliver justice in time? Can the various wings of democracy including legislative, executive, and judiciary act collectively to preserve the sanctity of secularism? Can Indians expect fair justice irrespective of the social stature of the persons involved? Probably these are the difficult questions we have been raising since long, but we haven't yet received any satisfactory response to them. There are two specific reasons that fit here; one, the ruling class carries an inherent inertia as a mechanism to prove its extreme importance; two, the subject close to the ruling class try to tinker with anything and everything to prevail their position in society. Thus the immaculate truth is that one India is exploiting the other India with extreme precision.