India’s crawling justice

Twelve years after Mohammed Rafiq Shah and Mohammed Hussain Fazli, accused of the serial blasts at Paharganj, Sarojini Nagar and on a DTC bus in Govindpuri in 2005 claiming 67 innocent lives, have been acquitted and Tariq Ahmed Dar, the alleged mastermind, was convicted on charges of aiding and funding a terror outfit and sentenced to 10 years in prison, a term he has served as an undertrial. It looks like either the police is not ready to arrest the main culprits or to earn medals, catch innocent and frame false charges and waste the lives of the innocents. While every criminal and terrorist should be punished as per the law, those two innocents lost twelve years of their lives while those responsible for the crime have not been brought to book, yet. The government must compensate for the sufferings undergone by these youths. A law must be put in place wherein nobody is able to misuse power for self benefit. With due respect to the judiciary, is the court not accountable for their lengthy judicial procedure—nine years in this case? There must be some time limit to fix justice to victims in order to stop the harassment faced by the innocents from police, investigative agency and the judiciary.

— Bidyut Kumar Chatterjee