The death of four accused persons allegedly involved in the rape, murder and burning of Hyderabad veterinary doctor through police encounter within a week of committing crime is something “out of blue” for most news readers.
For many within India and outside India it is like celebration as well as appreciation. Celebration since the four accused persons who had admitted (police version) of the most heinous crime ceased to live further and appreciation since there is chance all four are not involved in crime, also since Indian police has habits of working under dictates of opportunist politicians and most important in future it may become a trend for police through encounter kill innocent victims and save themselves from clutches of law.
The killing in police custody and through fake encounters is most foul crime. It is unpardonable unfortunately in most of custodial deaths those involved make mockery of Indian judiciary by getting off scot-free. Whether their conscience allows them to sleep peacefully through extra-judiciary killing nobody knows but those involved are certainly openly embraced within society and they instead of loitering in jail, walk the streets like a gentleman and there is reason that is sedated form of Judiciary.
Most people, including me, at the first glimpse of encounter news were happy that the monsters got instant justice as well to the family members of the victim. In actuality nobody wanted them to die in such manner but when our country India has a sedated form of Judiciary instant justice is welcomed without a second thought.
Let me take Goa for example. In our tiny Goa UK National Scarlett Keeling was murdered in 2008 and the criminal was convicted in 2019; Irish woman Daniel McLaughlin was brutally murdered early in 2017 and the trial has not even started full-fledged. Like these two, there are thousands of criminal/civil ligations pending for disposal and conviction in various Goa Courts. Few are very lucky to get at least one hearing per month of their case but most get one or two dates per year. Is this called justice in India?
Many are condemning those who are celebrating the encounter killing of four alleged dangerous criminals, even in parliament the politicians voiced out public punishment on line of some Islamic countries but no one is talking of sedated form of judiciary. Is it because our system of giving justice totally collapsed?
Chief Justice of India SA Bobde says that justice loses character if it became revenge through encounter. Can the same justice and many other sitting judges tell us what one can call if justice/injustice are delivered after 10 to 20 years and in many cases after death of primary litigant.
The sedated form of judiciary needs to vanish if people don’t like instant justice as in many encounter cases it is likely the innocent who become victims of man in uniforms.
Foremost all cases against politicians need to finish within six months of FIRs else by law makers they make mockery of India democracy.
With sedated form of judiciary in India we will definitely witness more police encounters to get swift justice to the deserved and people will be happy to welcome it without knowing the truth.
