I just came across a newspaper article a few days back, which talked about the dismal condition of our judicial system. Sheetal Singh, was a peon in a government organization, who was falsely implicated in a robbery case and expelled from service. He filed a petition in the court, pleading guilty.
Twenty-two years after this, the court declares him guilty. But by this time, Sheetal had already crossed his retirement age and lost his accumulated wealth in fighting the case. He is no less than a pauper today. This was the result of the injustice meted out to him by the Indian judicial system. It is rightly said that justice delayed is justice denied. According to the Indian Constitution, if a citizen is denied social, economic or political justice, it is referred to as injustice.
We have seen quite often that on account of the loopholes in our judicial system, neither the culprit gets appropriate punishment nor the victim is compensated at the right time. Even the compensation cannot be equated to minimizing the injustice. The dominance of pressure groups leads to the verdict going against the victims. Such injustice is not a rare sight in our country. Even history talks about injustice when Shah Jahan chopped off the hands of the two hundred laborers who built the Taj Mahal, so that those laborers could never be employed by other emperors to make beautiful monuments.
The time has come when the blindfold of the lady in the white robe, representing fair justice, should be opened. She should now be allowed to see the injustice all around, so that the balance in her hand is able to measure justice and mitigate the injustice.
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