jabdakhata

Sometimes back I wrote a piece on the rottenness of the criminal justice system in our country. Today, I am numbed by the extent of the rottenness. The Supreme Court of India has failed the citizens of India yet again, by denying justice to a four year old girl and her parents, by commuting the death sentence of a rapist murderer. And the panel included one woman judge.  The sheer hypocrisy is evident from the process of delivering justice, more than the outcome. If the judges deliver justice by quoting literature, how different is the Supreme Court from the sharia courts that deliver justice by quoting scriptures? Atleast those sharia judges believe their scriptures. Fundamentally there is no difference. The reason for outrage is the absolute lack of scientific rigour in the process of delivering justice. Forget about the fact that the judgement did not take into account the fate of the innocent victim, how brutally she was raped and killed. Forget even the fact that the insensitive &