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In early 1970s in Madhya Pradesh, a young boy in a small village was offered a job to work in a city. The boy and his mother agreed, the boy left with the man to board a train from a nearby village to Jabalpur.
Within 2 days the man returned alone narrating to the boys mother, how the boy stepped out on the station to drink water and never returned.
Within no time, the police found out a brutally burnt body in a nearby forest, with a box full of poisoned sweets lying near it.
The mother identified the half burned clothes, the shopkeeper identified the box of sweets along with the man as the person who bought it.
The man was charged and found guilty in the lower court & the high court. And in the supreme court the man himself confessed that the boy used to harass his daughter so he poisoned him. He was found guilty of the premeditated murder and was ordered death penalty.
Two years after the man was hanged, the boy somehow managed to return to his village narrating how he got off the train to drink water and how he couldn’t make it to the train nor the village because he had no identification of his village.
It turned out that the identification of his half burnt clothes by his mother, sweet box by the shopkeeper and the confession, was all done under the pressure of police to shut the case down as soon as possible.
This is one of those rare cases which proved that all the evidences produced before the court were all lies, as the victim himself returned alive.
In states where naxalism was present earlier, the police used to tie every unsolvable murder to naxals and get done with it.
Now imagine police making it a norm of encountering based on accusations and people thinking that the justice has been served !?!!!
When the French reign of terror started under Maximilien Robespierre, they too used to execute without a crisp trial claiming swift justice. The end result was that it was tyranny all around. Anyone would accuse anyone of treason and get them executed and the govt. ended up executing more than 16 thousand people between June 1793 to July 1794 in the name of criminal justice and protecting society.
Today the Hyderabad police fake encountered 4 accuses of Hyderabad rape. There is no argument that the encounter was fake, why!? 4 of them stole guns from the police !? If yes then it was a really bad script. If no, then you cannot execute all 4 because one of them stole the gun, also you shoot them in the leg to incapacitate them, not to kill them.
People who are getting happy over it are getting happy over a fake encounter, which in deeper essence means ‘ Police murdering someone and then hiding evidence’ ; which for a society should be The Most Frightening Thing!!!!!
And now imagine if this becomes a Trend!????
After Nirbhaya, they lynched a man in Tripura, who was accused of rape and later found innocent.
Why as a society are we forgetting that each move like this, leads a country towards a regime of lawlessness and police brutality !?
The way its said ‘tumhara ya tumhare ghar mein se kisi ke saath rape hoga tabh pata chalega’ same goes with ‘Tumhara ya tumhare kisi relative ka fake rape case mein lynch ya encounter hojayega tabh pata chalega’
You can celebrate lawlessness only when you are not the one who is accused.
Bigger question is who is to blame !? The society !? NO.
Do we all properly remember the police encounter of the four SIMI terrorists in MP !?
At that time the sense of ‘Anti Nationalism’ was high, and the society was regularly fed the hate against their own patriotic sentiments. RESULT !? Everyone celebrated an encounter which was again, prima facie fake!!!
Everytime a sentiment rises to such a point that the people start believing that the law is not justice, they find comfort in lawlessness.
Thomas Hobbes himself said, that the law should be able to keep peace, if not then the society owes nothing to it.
If the present court and justice systems cant provide speedy trials, quick access to justice, the society does not owe a duty to believe that it is anything.
We cannot blame society for this, but the lagging justice system, lack of judges, slow progression in courts.
This happiness in the society for a fake encounter merely reflects THE FACT THAT THE SYSTEM IS FAILING.
And lets be honest, none of those 4 accused were innocent. They were caught on camera and unless the police has acquired exceptional video editing skills, they sure were GUILTY. I am NOT sad about their encounter, they would’ve been hanged in the court anyway in my opinion.
But does that give us a right or to the police to judge !?
Even if we know that they were guilty, there has to be a process for it. And if the present system is failing to uphold the society’s faith in the system, its time to revamp it.
So much of money is lost in scams, thousands of crores !? Imagine this money being instead used in the appointment of required judges!? Establishing courts !? Digitalisation of the entire judicial system !?
We as a scared and worried society, can easily celebrate the extrajudicial killings, but we will cry tears of blood like every society where the police has been given a free hand and we let it get established as a norm, if we do not withdraw from such celebrations and understand the deeper and dangerous meaning behind its ugly face.
The solution is again, pressuring the govt. to revamp the current criminal justice system, and not in totality eradicating it.
P.S : If you are a law student / lawyer and you are happy with extrajudicial killings, godbless your clients if you ever become a defense lawyer!!
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