I am pained to see the news on Dr.Binayak Sen. Life in prison and for what? Murderers and corrupt officials lead comfortable lives and a man who helped another human being in need (medically) is jailed - Life in prison indeed!! The unfairness is overwhelmingly. (No wonder, the activist youth want to go RangDeBasanti on those responsible. Doesn't solve any problem though.) Any judge looking at the facts of the case would just throw it out of the court. But no, given the special status of Naxal threat in the area, it cannot be done.
This case highlights the complex issue of Naxals in the country.
To quote from a newspaper "A 58-year-old activist doctor who has dedicated his life to providing healthcare to tribals in a remote land is thrown in jail for allegedly being a sympathiser of armed rebels who have waged a war against the State. To protect its own, the State has armed tribals to take on the rebels who were reportedly fighting for the rights of those very tribals. Keeping aside city comforts, the good doctor had made it his life's mission to campaign against fake encounters, custody deaths, hunger deaths, malnutrition and dysentery. He had taken on the State for neglecting its poor and arming one set of tribals against the other."Media and citizens outrage is good. We have to keep pressure on this and something should be done. Yes, the case will go to High court and Supreme court. But the injustice makes me wonder if we lived in a civilized world after all.
Online Petition here: Indian Justice Has Failed Dr Binayak Sen
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Sorry - India is not a democracy.
It has always been a pretension - people have always worked for their vested interests and whoever filters their way to the top seem like a perfect fit for this work.
Whenever a stellar exception arises, those people are put down with an iron hand. This quote in that hindu link says it all.
"Compare this with the enormous, plainly visible, and egregious assaults on the national interest in the form of various scams that are going largely unexamined, and, given the history, are likely to go entirely unpunished if not actually rewarded!”
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