Our Home Minister, Mr Shinde has
advised the law administrators to take all steps that they can to
ensure that no innocent Muslim should be detained and put behind
bars.
That definitely is a noble thought, Sir
but I just wonder why has it not been brought to you notice that
along with such innocent Muslim there are toddlers, in fact infants
as young as a few months old who are being put behind bars at a mere
complain under the notorious section 498A of the Indian Penal Code.
But then I also wonder why should you
wait for someone to bring this to your notice when the same has been
documented in the Report No. 243 on S.498A of the Indian Penal Code
by the Indian Law Commission released just about an year back in
August 2012. The report is not just available in public forums it is
ought to be in your office since you are India's Home Minister (and
not just a father of a woman who has had a bad marriage).
If you read the report in full and
provided in full fairness, you would realize that there is a
significant number of men – Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Jains,
Christians etc – who are being detained, put behind bars for either
no fault or without proper investigation. At just a mere complain by
a woman not just her husband but his entire family is thrown in the
jail. And this family has often included kids, children and even
infants – not to talk of elderly men and women who are in regular
need ot medical help! I draw your attention to section 2.2 of the
said report (just in case your office – or maybe you – missed it
by chance or by design; a link to the report is provided at the end)
Isn't this report from the judiciary
who actually gets to see the use and misuse of law enough for the
legislature to sit up and introspect what went wrong when framing the
law? Or is it that you are seeking personal benefits out from it?
But what makes you sure that this will not bite you back? Will you
amend it then? But in that case, the Indians are actually living at
the mercy of politicians – the gods of the time! Unless they feel
the heat, the commoners cannot expect any wind of relief.
So, Mr Home Minister will you now take
a minute and see that besides innocent Muslims, innocent infants and
kids are not put behind bars. Or do you too believe that a 4 month
old baby is a grave threat to an abla naari who has all designs and
plans or the support to misuse laws. By not taking corrective action
on this asinine law, the legislature is putting the country on the
path that slowly but surely leads to a criminal record for over 50%
of the population across age!
This does not leave me with a wonder,
but a clarity that law world over is an ass but Indian legislature is
unique in being a asshole!
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