Communalism
Judicial system Manipulated and Justice
reduced to a Farce by Ruling Classes
It is apparent from various
court verdicts recently delivered in
various cases against the “saffron
terror” viz the terror of Hindutva
forces, that the NDA rulers are
skillfully manipulating the judicial
system to their advantage through
their governmental power for
obtaining the acquittal of the
heinous criminals against humanity,
duly reducing the dispensation of
justice in to a mere force.
One year back Sadhvi Pragya
the main accused in Malegaon blast
case (2008) along with 7 other
accused were acquitted to go scot
free by the district court of Bhopal
despite sufficient evidences
against them.
Same thing has happened in
the Ajmer Dargha blast (2007) and
the Samjhouta Express attack
(2007), while the same were
accused in the cases that belong
to extreme right-wing Hindvata
outfits.
More aghast is the case of
acquittal of the main accused
swami Aseemanand from the
Mecca Masjid blast case of
Hyderabad on May 18, 2007 killing
nine persons and inspiring 58
others. This swami Aseemanand is
accused in all the above cases and
connected with them.
Swamy Aseemanand himself
had confessed of his guilt before a
magistrate at Delhi. Despite
reminded by the magistrate to
reflect on his decision to confess,
that he could be inviting a death
penalty by confessing, a month
later he confessed to another
magistrate owning up of his
involvement in Mecca Masjid and
other bomb blasts. But since
Aseemanand retracted his
June - 2018
confection, the NIA court judge
acquitted him on the pretest of “lack
of evidence!” Immediately after the
delivery of the verdict the judge put
in his papers. It came in to light that
the special protestor appointed in
this case was a person who had
no experience in criminal law
persons besides that he was a
member of A.B.V.P while he was
studying his second year law and
thus was associated with B.J.P, RSS
and other Hindutva outfits. The NIA,
the investigative agency, too fell in
line with the forces in governmental
power and diluted the case
successfully defeating the justice
it-self.
With in a fortnight of the above
mentioned court verdict, on April
20, Maya Kodani, a minister in
Narendra Modi’s government was
acquitted in the Naroda Patia case
in the 2002 pogrom of Muslims.
Kodani become a minister after the
riots in 2012, she was convicted by
a trial court as the ‘king pin’ of rids
and given 28-year prison term. The
High Court acquitted her on appeal.
Her acquittal shocked the people,
since she was seen by some at the
scene exhorting the mobs to kill
Muslims, distributing swords and
assuring the mob that there would
be no enquiries by the police. That
this case is skillfully bungled by the
prosecution at the behest of B.J.P
rulers is clearly apparent.
Again in another case of the
custodial death of Khwaja Yunus,
a 27 year-old software engineer,
who was arrested in Mumbai in
December 2002, for a bombing in
Ghatkopar that killed two, was
reported by police to have
disappeared while under police
escort to Aurangabad, and a CID
probe revealed that the police had
tortured him to death. The special
public protester Dhiraj Miraskar,
who was appointed in Nov.2015,
was suddenly removed from his
post cancelling his appointment by
the Maharashtra government on
April 17; which he had to learn in
the court when another public
protector informed the judge of it.
He is sacked because he asked
that four police officials who tortured
and killed the victim be made
additional accused in the court.
The Maharashtra state government
unwilling to put the efficient and
criminal police officials on trial, had
summarily dismissed the very
special public prosecutor appointed
up itself to defeat justice.
The opposition parties have
been alleging that is the process
of protecting Amit Shah-the B.J.P
President who was an accused in
Godhra massacre case, Justice
Loya was murdered.
In U.P already the state
government had prepared the
ground to acquit the main accused
from Muzaffar Nagar case and save
Minister Suresh Rana, former
central minister Sanjeev Balayan,
MP Bhartendu Singh and MLA
Umamahesh from that case.
Though technically all these
cases appear to be failed due to
weak prosecution and inefficient
and ineffective probes by
investigating agencies, in reality
they are the result of the
manipulations committed by the
rulers in power, by misdirecting
them in the bid to defeat the very
spirit of justice and justice itself.
The judicial system is vulnerable
and controlled by the powers in
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