“We shouldn’t have to fear our judiciary” (Editorial of June 5, 2010 of ‘News China’ magazine published by China Newsweek Corporation).
Zhao Zhenshang (in Henan Province in China) served more than 10 years of his sentence before his ‘victim’ reappeared alive and well. Zhao told media that he confessed only because the torture he was subjected to by police investigators, which include beatings and sleep deprivations, was unbearable.
So the editorial had to end with the statement: “ As things stand , as is proved by Zhao’s case, the innocent still have much to fear from the Chinese court system".
As an administrator for more than three decades in Central India, I find a similar predicament in our country too. Nearly 90% of the criminals are roaming on the streets of India who can be hauled up under some law or the other while similarly 90% of the under trials and convicted persons languishing inside Indian prisons are innocent and wrongfully harassed, prosecuted and convicted. It therefore prompted me to write a poem on Indian police as follows:
Crooks & Cops
Spineless bureaucrats and corrupted cops
Bane of Indian society and order of the day
They dance to the tunes of political bosses
Laws and facts twisted to tastes of masters
Voiceless are victims of these cruel lobsters
True to their skin & skull they are like stones.
Damn they care no hoots to anyone in the world
Umpteen are methods they adopt to plant a story
Third degree method verily known to one and all
Depressed & decimated are some at their hands
Elephants & man-eaters escape their owlish eyes
Mongooses & mice only could be their easy preys.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
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