Jayalalitha, Ramalinga Raju, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Salman Khan, Kanimozhi, Raja…the list goes on.
People who in the eyes of the public are corrupt or guilty, their case drag on for decades and the ultimate verdict is to set them free without these lot in some cases not even seeing the interior of a jail as in the case of Salman Khan.
What one fails to understand is how the cases of these people drag on for years in the lower courts and when a conviction finally comes about, it takes no time for the conviction to be overruled or bail being granted within no time in the Supreme Court.
Why do these cases drag on for years in the lower court when the Supreme Court can immediately arrive at a conclusion? Is it the Supreme Court or the lower courts or both, guilty of trying to assist the guilty?
How are these people getting bail in the higher courts? Well, once an appeal against their conviction is filed in the Supreme Court, the judiciary proceeds on the assumption that they are innocent until proven guilty. On this ground, the Court says that their freedom cannot be restrained until a judgment is pronounced.
The Indian legal system acts on the premise that “a hundred guilty people may get away free, but not even one innocent person should be wrongly convicted.” It is this principle that is coming to the rescue of the guilty parties, time and again.
Ultimately, even if a conviction arrives finally in the cases still pending then the convicted in the meantime would have died of old age.
But the point is that the ease with which top politicians and celebrities ar manipulating the judicial system to get away Scott-free is fast eroding the confidence of the common man in the judiciary.
What would have been the fate of the above mentioned if we had rules like Saudi Arabia?
