Judicial System: Let us be cost effective
Seeing the past trend in cases of Jessica Lal, Priyadarshini Mattoo, Mehar Bhargav, Nitish Katara and others and the latest effort to buy the key witness in the BMW case, where witnesses turn hostile in a jiffy or evidences are destroyed or not even collected or victim is forced to withdraw the case, and the case ends up releasing the culprits after so much effort by law enforcements, media, judiciary, public and everyone else, I got a huge time and cost saving idea which could save judiciary years of time and millions of Rupees.
The idea is-Let us make a criteria for such cases. If the convicted is a politician or a relative of politician or has a criminal background or comes from an influential family (the BMW case for example!), just REJECT the case RIGHT UPFRONT. You ought to do this because you know the result, so why to spend millions of Rupees and hours interrogating the witnesses, conducting inquiries, searching the convict in the whole world but his own house (or a well-wisher’s house), calling court sessions and keep postponing the case for decades.
Also, most of the cases, victim or the people related to the victim lose their interest (or life-as Jessica's parents) while we were spending so much time following the judicial process. By rejecting such cases, we will not only save cost or time but also save victims or their relatives from harassments, frustration and loss of faith in the judicial system.
Once we implement this, our police, CBI, CID and other efficient agencies can concentrate on cases which involves political revenge, investigating politicians who lost power and investigating for people who gained power and want to ensure that the ones who lost power don't gain it back. They can also concentrate on making fancy foreign trips to bring convicted people who cannot be brought back as our government does not have an extradition treaty with that country. They can also focus on harassing those victims who somehow were able to file cases despite the above suggested “REJECTION LAW”.
Another major issue-Protection to politicians who have life threats from the problems they themselves created before. I heard there is huge resource gap in the body guarding industry for politicians but with the law enforcement free from “non important cases” this gap can be easily filled.
Remember the case in Gujarat, where some judge signed a warrant on President's name. With the rejection law, these kind of signatures could not be obtained as a judge will have to look at the name and the profile of the person as per law before he signs a summon or a warrant. See how efficiently we are solving issues!
I see a ripple effect of all this “Judicial Reforms” to our economy and society. Once we save billions of money, we can use the same to allocate more funds to the politicians who will have more money power to make deals under the table. It will give media more opportunities to run sting operations, more inquiries will be made, more people would be recruited to media, police, CBI etc. etc. thus generating employment.
Our law ministers for the past 15 plus years have been trying to speed up the cases and I am foreseeing some success now with the proposed law. There will be (very) less cases to handle as most of these cases involves a high profile convict. This will give our judges a good work-life balance as they would be able to spend more time with their families and friends. They will have a greater job satisfaction. Their job will become less risky as they would not be making any unpopular, unpleasant judgment against influential people. When judges are happy, politicians are happy, people are ought to be happy as a Sanskrit quote says “Yatha Raja tatha Praja”!
Mera bharat mahaan!
© Shivesh Sinha., all rights reserved.
In case you missed...
Some other recent posts by Shivesh Sinha
© 1998-2008 Copyright Sulekha.com Connecting Indians Worldwide, All Rights Reserved.
Recommend