Truth? how much per kilo?
Well, thats what it seems like whenever our law enforcement authorities sit and frame cases. This Afzal case seems to be another instance of creative fiction writing, albeit with lots of logical holes which would make a Vijaykanth film look realistic in comparison.
Just like history repeats itself, we just know this happens whenever a case is subject to public scrutiny in all its details. This is the same from Kanchi Mutt case till Afzal.
Actually i can see a parallel to this issue and the way Income Tax is being collected in this country. While there is a complete parallel economy running, the government and the tax authorities are more than keen to squeeze every penny of the honest tax-paying salaried class. I guess the same happens in Law Enforcement too. Since insurgency is rampant in some parts, the authorities probably want to catch hold of someone to close cases soon so that they are seen as doing work in the eyes of their political masters. That their job is thankless adds substantially to this.
The issue is not so much as to whether Afzal should be spared from death penalty but that if we know the truth at all. Even he does not claim complete innocence.
And if at all he is one, i’m sure he is neither the first nor the last to suffer such a death in this country. If at all he is innocent, his life is no more or less important than the thousands who died a ghastly death due to terror activities, be it Mumbai train blasts or the countless other blasts in India about which we’ve done nothing. We just moved on.
But why this ‘framing’ by police? Its high time something is done about this.
For all we know the criminal laws and their requirements to get one convicted is so full of loop holes to deal with terror activities. Probably this leaves the police with no other option but to botch up stories to add strength to their cases. If that is the case then we might need to revamp the criminal justice procedures to suit the times of the day. Its even sadder that our highest courts make ‘note’ but nothing more of such gross attempts to make up stories.
But for now we have to conclude that indians are an imaginative lot only that there is abundant talent in the most inappropriate of places.
October 28th, 2006 at 9:30 pm
towel pottu first place pudichitu…padikka poren
October 29th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
naan towel pottu…. second place pidichiten!
October 29th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
Illa ba.. i have to disagree with u.
There seems to be credible evidence against Afzal. He is reported to have spoken the terrorist who tried to blow up our parliament, just few minutes before.
He is reported to have funded them too..
And by the by, Afzal is not a Mahatma Gandhi…. avan saagardhala thappe illa.. thappe illa..thappe illa.. ( *read with echo effect *)
October 29th, 2006 at 7:20 pm
nanba.. neenga Coimbatore-la irundheengala???
KG complexla Anupallavi-la Gunaa padam paathadha poturkeengal adhaan ketten… I am currently staying in Cbe only! Naanum adhye theatrela padam paathurken!
October 29th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
syam and karthik,
naan enna arasu pokkuvarathu kazhagam bus conduuctor a?
ipdi aal alukku thundu potuten hnu solreengale 
October 29th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
karthik.
yes me from cbe
btw andha article nalla padichu paaru.
why so many loopholes?
yep. i totally agree he is not a gandhi and yeah i dont have any inhibitions in hanging a convict.
but that does not give any privilege to law enforcement authorities to write crap as cases.
October 30th, 2006 at 6:09 pm
PK,
Do you think all the judges who upheld afzals sentence are inhumans, and dont know the ground reality? Sad that you go by the words of arundhati roy, who are there to remain in news and not do anything useful.
October 30th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
ferrari,
its one thing i find inconsistencies here and its another (or rather incidental) that its written by arundhati.
Arundhati pathi latest post potruken aprom padichuttu sollunga!
October 31st, 2006 at 7:09 am
The whole matter to me boils down to this - Do we believe in the interpretation of the court’s judgement by folks like Ms.Roy , Nandita Haksar etc. It may not even be an interpretation if you go by what Nandita Haksar is saying - she has quoted the Supreme court as saying that the execution is needed to set the public’s mind at rest - has that been pulled out of context ? If it is in context, then we are no better than Saudi Arabia.
The whole matter also brings into question our own ability to grasp the courts judgement - pl. note I did not say ‘right to be concerned’.
Do we have the time or the knowledge or whatever it takes to understand it ? I don’t - so I take it from folks like Ms.Roy, journalists etc each of whom has at least a small axe to grind, which is fine with me. People pooh pooh Karma saying it’s working are mumbo-jumbo, and here we are, a case that’s happening right before our eyes and 99.9% of the educated population cannot explain the judgement.