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India courts shame by shutting case
against mass murderer,
world shames it more
WSN Bureau
NEW DELHI WASHINTON/LONDON:
Ironical is the time for India's top
sleuthing agency for shutting the mass genocide murder case against
former federal minister and senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) did so at a time when
elsewhere in the civilized world, a nation (UK) was closing a gap in
race legislation to give protection to Muslims and Hindus also which
was available to only Sikhs and Jews who were deemed by the British
courts to be racial groups while another (US) passed a law to
prevent hate crimes against minorities.
And what was the
CBI's reason for giving up the pursuit of justice? 'Most witnesses
have died, and anyway not many are ready to testify.' So, will the
hon'ble court please let off Mr Tytler, guilty and accused of
leading and inciting mobs of Hindu ruffians to grab and burning
alive hundreds of Sikhs in broad daylight in the national capital of India?
The CBI action
came in the same week in which the minorities, the Sikhs in
particular, were hailing the Senate’s passage of the Local Law
Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 (LLEHCPA) which
underlined that hate motivated crimes will not be tolerated and the
US remains dedicated to the ideals of equality and mutual
understanding (Read separate story inside).
How much do
nations invest in the law and order machinery and in the justice
dispensing system to tell the world that they belong to the
civilised part of it, and how little it takes the philistines to say
in a shrill voice that they remain heathens, the thick book called
Constitution of India notwithstanding?
The CBI acts
directly under the federal government, and the Prime Minister can
intervene directly in the affairs of the CBI. India currently
has a turbaned Prime Minister and a supreme leader called Sonia
Gandhi who had tried to mend the many broken fences with the Sikhs
by apologizing for Operation Bluestar at one stage. Now is the time
for the PM to prove that he is not only a turbaned man but a Sikh
also, and no Sikh can do or bear justice. It is time for Mrs. Gandhi
to prove that the UPA government’s big talk of keeping the communal
forces at the fringe has any seriousness attached to it.
The fact that
the Congress, even under Gandhi, repeatedly fielded men like Tytler
will never be overlooked by the Sikhs. It was under Mrs Gandhi’s
watch only when Tytler had to quit the ministry after coming under
cloud from even the Nanawati Commission.
No matter how
much progress India makes in the IT sector or the knowledge domain,
the fact that its body polity failed to bring to justice the
perpetrators of crime against humanity, a crime of a scale never
witnessed in the country, a crime where as per the government
figures thousands were burnt alive in the national capital alone.
Wherever will an Indian go, questions about the anti-Sikh massacres
will haunt him. The Indian Parliament’s failure till date to condole
and regret the mass murders has been compounded further by the
latest move of the CBI.
A quick reversal
of the decision, a la the withdrawal of the ASI affidavits on the
issue of Ram Sethu, will send a clear signal that all is not lost,
and that while faith may have been shaken, the vestiges of shame
remain.
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October, 2007
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