Tuesday, August 7, 2007

We have a thousand Haneefs

India had no right to make the brouhaha it did about the detention of Haneef in Australia. Here we have thousands of people lodged in our jails waitng for a trial, many even waiting for a chargesheet to be filed against them. Recently one of the bomb blasts accused was acquitted after spending many years in jail. Where is our media when their lives are being wasted without reason?

You cannot deny that Australian legal system functions much better than the one in India. Haneef would have eventually been freed (very soon in all probability). Instead of throwing stones at others we need to first put our house in order.

1 comment:

Pushkar said...

I think It's good for those accused to live in jails because if the law continues to function the way it functions, one day soon enough we'll find people wanting to go to jails cause the worse they could meet inside will be petty criminals. The max population of such petty theives would be around 10%, the rest will be educated and innocent men.

In this new scenario probably even the jails will start taking a entrance exam to limit the access to the paradise, since most of the "righteous" people would prefer to be safely locked inside the jail rather than live a life outside threatened at every step by the politicians, the Dons and the Law enforcers .