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What Moral Right Does He Have?

What Moral Right Does He Have?

Salman Khan sparked off an outrage when he tweeted that the Supreme Court was making a mistake in awarding the death penalty to Yakub Memon when it should be his brother Tiger Memon who should be hanged.

For the record, Yakub Memon is the person convicted in the 1993 Mumbai blasts that claimed over 250 innocent Indian lives.

His brother Tiger Memon is being sheltered in Pakistan by the ISI. Ordinary citizens of this country can never judge whether Yakub Memon is indeed guilty or not as they cannot be privy to the investigation records. They can only trust the authorities to do their duty and the Supreme Court to deliver a true judgement.

What is definitely questionable is the moral right of Salman Khan to speak up on such a sensitive issue.

Salman Khan has himself been convicted in the hit-and-run case but did not get to spend a single day behind bars having procured bail immediately on technical reasons.

How can such a person comment on such an important case? What information does he have, what credibility does he have and what moral right does he have? Is he so stupid that he cannot understand that his comments will have religious repercussions?

“1 innocent man killed is killing the humanity,” tweeted Salman in relation to Yakub Memon. What about the five innocent people crushed under his car when in an intoxicated state, he rammed into those poor pavement dwellers? And hit-and-run seems to be a fad with this star who hours after posting the controversial tweets deleted them thanks to a barrage of whiplash from twittizens.

“Brother is being hanged for tiger. Aarrre Whr is tiger?” and “Get tiger hang him. Parade him not his brother,” were the other tweets of Salman. And here are some of the responses to Salman on twitter.

“After Black Bucks, now he's no concern even for Tigers. Only 1411 left bhai.” Another tweet goes : “instead of tiger & yakub why not their drivers should be hanged..?”

A third tweet says, “If Salman Khan is feeling so sorry for Yakub Memon, why doesn't he give some of his collection from Bajrangi Bhaijaan to his family?” tweet no 4 goes : “Salman who himself made mockery of India's justice system, now has sympathy for Yakub as well. Surprised? I'm not.”

The final one says: “Salman khan pitches for yakub memon...Bhaijaan kyon? When u in tricky sitn urself”. Need one say more?

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