The Judicial System’s Poster Child
From some weird reason, our judicial system has decided that Ajmal Kasab is the poster child to show that our system “works”. How? By prolonging his trial endlessly. Imagine that: there’s the CC TV evidence from 26/11 that shows that he was killing people randomly. He is not even an Indian citizen. More than 160 people slaughtered by this animal and his friends and our system needs 3 years (and counting) to decide whether or not this is a “rarest of rare” crime that deserves the death penalty. And then it’ll go to our President’s desk who will let it lie unresponded to for years on end. Bravo! Yes, we are all convinced by how (and for how long) Kasab’s case has been handled that the system “works”. Could our system not find better candidates to show that it works? Like speeding up Kalmadi or Raja’s trials? Like not allowing Yeduyarappa to go around hospital hopping? Apparently not. Taking 3 years brooding over Kasab with the possibility of commuting or overturning his sentence: yes, th...