I have been going through the innumerable comments being expressed in electronic and print media after Talwars have been prosecuted and sentenced to life imprisonment.Though many believe this to be a case of natural justice considering Talwars guilty of killing their beloved 14 years only daughter and their domestic servant Hemraj and also find the ground of conviction given by the judge as logical and acceptable but I am not at all convinced with the motive addigned behind these morders and therefore justifying conviction and sentencing. .I have also read an article by a very renowned journalist and blogger Ms Ghosh who has called it rape of justice and has very logically substantiated her conclusions though many have differed with her but many have appreciated her treatise which carefully brings out the reasons for her believing the conviction as rape of justice.Though on most of points I agree with her views but I won't call it a rape of jutice but in my view it is justice misconceived based on preconceived notions and presumptuous motive.I am unable to be convinced with the 26 points justifications given by the honourable judge justifying Talwar's conviction on one ground that motive assigned for the gruesome murder by the parents of their own beloved daughter followed by their domestic servant, is presumptuous and the prosecution has been unable to establish it with clinching or even doubtfull evidences.Since both the characters who could have defended the story fabricated by prosecution similar to the classical fictitious charachter Lolita in the novel of the same name are dead, how can the conviction based on this fabricated motive which can not be established either by direct or curcumstancial evidences be justified?.We are not a western society where boys and girls become mature at an early age to be able to keep their illicit affairs under wraps . In Indian context can it be believed that a 14 years old kid girl was so mature and naive that she was keeping her so called affair with a 45 years old man under wraps and none of the persons who were close to her or her family could guess it?.In Indian society where if a father and his daughter or brothers and sisters move around ,people and police eyes them suspiciously but in this case a 14 years old girl was having a sexual relationship with her domestic servant and none could suspect it .Both must have been great actors and manipulators indeed.!I must congratulate CBI who in order to salvage their honour after their request for closure of the case was rejected by the CBI court, were able to fabricate a Lolita like story with out any direct or curcumstancial evidence which was also believed by the court as sufficient motive for the crime and therefore meritted conviction of Talwar couple.Let any one who believes on this motive behind the murders including CBI people come out with a single convincing evidence to substantiate this motive I am ready to accept that justice has been done.Otherwise in my view irrepairable damage has been done to Arushi who being dead is in no position to defend her modesty and refute this fabricated story.It would have been better if the learned judge would have treated this case as rarest of the rare case and awarded death punishment to both the Talwars as demanded by the CBI to save them from the ignomy of the fabricted character of their beloved daughter painted by the CBI and accepted as convincing by the Court.Even if they are let off by the higher courts or spend their rest of life in prosin, they would have to live with this life long ignomy that their 14 years old daughter was painted as a Lolita like character who was having affair with 45 years old domestic servant and they killed them in a fit of rage as imagined by many who believe in CBI's story.Though I am not a legal expert nor it is my intention to disrepect legal system still I am convinced that it's a case of justice misconeived based on fabricated motive which has no evidence at all.Now films will be made with juicy and lascivious potrayals based on Aarushi's Lolita like character conceived and depicted in the court by the CBI. Even after untimely death her soul would not be allowed to rest in peace.
Wednesday 27 November 2013
Monday 23 September 2013
Chinese are way ahead Indians in dealing with corrupt politicians.
While Indian politicians are huddled together to find way out to scuttle recent Supreme Court verdict on such politicians who have been convicted for more than 2 years,can't hold their elected posts in legislative assemblies/Parliament,here is our next door neighbor,China taking lead in convicting a top Chinese politician for corruption with in 15 months of unearthing the scandal.A Chinese court has found disgraced former top politician Bo Xilai guilty of bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power. Bo Xilai is 64-years-old and just two years ago he appeared to be poised to move into Zhongnanhai, the government compound in Beijing were China's top leaders reside.Two years ago Bo Xilai was seen as a candidate for promotion to the Politburo Standing Committee, China's top decision-making body.The former party chief of Chongqing Bo was sentenced to life imprisonment on the bribery charges, 15 years for embezzlement and seven years for abuse of power. In addition all his personal wealth has been confiscated..So,now, he will spend the foreseeable future inside a prison cell unless he is acquitted in appeal.Not only Bo his wife was convicted for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood following her conviction he was removed from office last year amid a scandal.The verdict was handed down by the Intermediate People's Court in Jinan, Shandong province.Passing sentence the judge told Bo that he had damaged China's national interests and the interests of its people, wrongfully using his position in power to receive bribes totaling 20 million Chinese Yuan ($3.2m; £2m).
He was also accused of abusing his office by using his
position to cover up for his wife Gu Kailai, convicted last year of murdering
Neil Heywood in 2011.
When Indians would learn lessons to deal with corruption in high places?
Thursday 29 August 2013
An open letter to Mr. Yasin Bhatkal
Dear Mr. Bhatkal ,
Although your time with Indian prosecution and judicial systems have started,there is no need for you to worry much. Unless you or your accomplice plan and execute your escape from Indian jails you will now stay in Indian jails like guest of honour of the country since you have been our much sought after guest.While police and courts will move in slowest possible pace for your prosecution the 1st phase of which would take 10 to 15 years,Indian Govt would spend millions of tax payers money on your hospitality and in keeping you hale and hearty.I think you are aware that your friend Tunda very recently after being captured was treated at AIIMS for his heart ailment and provided with pace maker at the public expense-the very same public which were many a times subjected to his orchestrated bomb blasts from time to time killing many innocent people.By the time your prosecution would be reaching final stage in sessions ,your many friends and well wishers in politics,your kith and kin,several human rights groups &NGOs will clamor for your release on the ground of you being falsely implicated.Per chance even if you are prosecuted, passing through all the three stages of judiciary(sessions,Highcourt and Supreme court),which would be any time no less than 20 to 25 years,capital punishment is likely to be done away with and the maximum you are likely to get life imprisonment which anyway you would have spent as trial prisoner(unless SP comes in power and gives you bail) at the expense of this country's specialised hospitality systems reserved for prestigious under trials like you .Hence don't worry the very same people whom you were brutally subjecting to elimination from time to time and succeeded also in good measures on many occasions will now keep you like their guest of honour.
Although your time with Indian prosecution and judicial systems have started,there is no need for you to worry much. Unless you or your accomplice plan and execute your escape from Indian jails you will now stay in Indian jails like guest of honour of the country since you have been our much sought after guest.While police and courts will move in slowest possible pace for your prosecution the 1st phase of which would take 10 to 15 years,Indian Govt would spend millions of tax payers money on your hospitality and in keeping you hale and hearty.I think you are aware that your friend Tunda very recently after being captured was treated at AIIMS for his heart ailment and provided with pace maker at the public expense-the very same public which were many a times subjected to his orchestrated bomb blasts from time to time killing many innocent people.By the time your prosecution would be reaching final stage in sessions ,your many friends and well wishers in politics,your kith and kin,several human rights groups &NGOs will clamor for your release on the ground of you being falsely implicated.Per chance even if you are prosecuted, passing through all the three stages of judiciary(sessions,Highcourt and Supreme court),which would be any time no less than 20 to 25 years,capital punishment is likely to be done away with and the maximum you are likely to get life imprisonment which anyway you would have spent as trial prisoner(unless SP comes in power and gives you bail) at the expense of this country's specialised hospitality systems reserved for prestigious under trials like you .Hence don't worry the very same people whom you were brutally subjecting to elimination from time to time and succeeded also in good measures on many occasions will now keep you like their guest of honour.
Wednesday 28 August 2013
Is FDI the answer to all the economic evils country is facing right now
Today INR has touched down to a level(R 68.75=1$) as never before .Many reasons are attributed to this fall.Current Account Deficit due to receding exports vis a vis galloping imports primarily of oil and gold .Besides FDIs are also not forth coming to rescue of weakening of economy.Today Bank Paribas has estimated GDP growth of just 3.7%
From 1947 onward we started looking on foreigners rather than creating our own sound economy to reduce dependence on foreign help.In initial years it might have been necessary to depend on foreign help but not forever.Initially we were with going with begging bowl scouting for foreign help now we are going with begging bowl for FDI. Can FDIs be answer to our economic evils ?
Can any country afford to survive on FDIs? . In 1991 when country's gold was mortgaged to Bank of England,historical liberalisation of Economy by the very same person who has been now Country's PM for last 9 years was intitiated. with steps taken then it was believed that country's dependence on foreign money either in the form of aid or any other assistance shall get reduced and investments of foreign investors would increase.These investments were expected to benefit to infrastructure sector which would given boost to industrial production which in turn would have given rise to GDP and plenty of internal accruals which again could have been partly be reinvested for infrastructure development thereby slowing dependence on FDIs on long run. But 22 years past nothing of the sort has happened.Today also we are desperately begging for FDIS .Why ?
Like Banks where NPAs spoil their balance sheets and in turn hamper their growth our country's internal accruals (read revenues)post 2004 are being increasingly being spent on non productive targets with lofty causes to elevate the misery of poors and poors' related development scheme.There are many well known schemes introduced by UPA under different Nehru Gandhi names.But did they bring the desired result or reached to target groups ?UPA chair person because of her closed door acquaintance with country's economy may rejoice in the success of those schemes but the fact is otherwise. Because of corrupt and defective delivery system the benefit of those schemes is not reaching to the targeted groups and is being pocketed by middlemen-the politicians ,bureaucrats and banks.Thus the money which could have been used for productive purpose by utilising it for infrastructure development, was diverted to these so called lofty vote catching but non productive schemes with not much benefit to poors -the targeted group. And now comes Food Bill which is expected to ruin the country's economy further even though considered a master stroke by UPA chairperson and her team as winning formulae for winning the next elections while finance minister of the Govt goes on exhorting for FDIs.
I don't think any one could be opposed to poors related benefit schemes to elevate their plight but the question is to what extent a country can afford to divert internal accruals to these schemes and depend on FDIs for infrastructure development .Whether Indians consider Foreign institutional investors blockheads to invest in a sinking economy as a result of internal revenues being diverted to non productive purposes how so ever lofty they are?. FDIs can serve only a limited purpose when the country's economy is booming and CAD is under reasonable control. With continuing deficit in balance of payment position(which has hardly any support from exports) Govt's war cry for FDI may in the long run kill Indian economy.With this war cry(any way very few foreign investors are getting allured to this war cry) with out strengthening our internal growth India again going to become a begging bowl country for foreign help rather than investments if this tendency of massive diversion of country's revenue on non productive purpose like the present food bill (howsoever lofty it may be ) is not stopped forthwith. Poverty can be partly get eliminated by higher industrial production which can come only with growth of infrastructure and then certainly country is entitled to introduce as many poor oriented schemes with effective delivery system to elevate left over poor groups.
From 1947 onward we started looking on foreigners rather than creating our own sound economy to reduce dependence on foreign help.In initial years it might have been necessary to depend on foreign help but not forever.Initially we were with going with begging bowl scouting for foreign help now we are going with begging bowl for FDI. Can FDIs be answer to our economic evils ?
Can any country afford to survive on FDIs? . In 1991 when country's gold was mortgaged to Bank of England,historical liberalisation of Economy by the very same person who has been now Country's PM for last 9 years was intitiated. with steps taken then it was believed that country's dependence on foreign money either in the form of aid or any other assistance shall get reduced and investments of foreign investors would increase.These investments were expected to benefit to infrastructure sector which would given boost to industrial production which in turn would have given rise to GDP and plenty of internal accruals which again could have been partly be reinvested for infrastructure development thereby slowing dependence on FDIs on long run. But 22 years past nothing of the sort has happened.Today also we are desperately begging for FDIS .Why ?
Like Banks where NPAs spoil their balance sheets and in turn hamper their growth our country's internal accruals (read revenues)post 2004 are being increasingly being spent on non productive targets with lofty causes to elevate the misery of poors and poors' related development scheme.There are many well known schemes introduced by UPA under different Nehru Gandhi names.But did they bring the desired result or reached to target groups ?UPA chair person because of her closed door acquaintance with country's economy may rejoice in the success of those schemes but the fact is otherwise. Because of corrupt and defective delivery system the benefit of those schemes is not reaching to the targeted groups and is being pocketed by middlemen-the politicians ,bureaucrats and banks.Thus the money which could have been used for productive purpose by utilising it for infrastructure development, was diverted to these so called lofty vote catching but non productive schemes with not much benefit to poors -the targeted group. And now comes Food Bill which is expected to ruin the country's economy further even though considered a master stroke by UPA chairperson and her team as winning formulae for winning the next elections while finance minister of the Govt goes on exhorting for FDIs.
I don't think any one could be opposed to poors related benefit schemes to elevate their plight but the question is to what extent a country can afford to divert internal accruals to these schemes and depend on FDIs for infrastructure development .Whether Indians consider Foreign institutional investors blockheads to invest in a sinking economy as a result of internal revenues being diverted to non productive purposes how so ever lofty they are?. FDIs can serve only a limited purpose when the country's economy is booming and CAD is under reasonable control. With continuing deficit in balance of payment position(which has hardly any support from exports) Govt's war cry for FDI may in the long run kill Indian economy.With this war cry(any way very few foreign investors are getting allured to this war cry) with out strengthening our internal growth India again going to become a begging bowl country for foreign help rather than investments if this tendency of massive diversion of country's revenue on non productive purpose like the present food bill (howsoever lofty it may be ) is not stopped forthwith. Poverty can be partly get eliminated by higher industrial production which can come only with growth of infrastructure and then certainly country is entitled to introduce as many poor oriented schemes with effective delivery system to elevate left over poor groups.
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