Slur on Indian Governance:
The Supreme Court of India on Friday (August 3, 2012) ended the age-old indifference and neglect of these hapless widows by asking the Uttar Pradesh government and Mathura authorities to provide proper food, medical facility and clean toilets at four government-run shelter homes at Vrindavan, which house more than 1700 women.
The author had witnessed the scene personally some seven years ago. It is really inhuman to watch and keep quiet. After all the state government and its agencies could have taken the steps ordered by the Court now. Is it the fate of Indian citizens to keep waiting for the directions to agencies from the court for every activity of theirs? As a former civil servant I feel ashamed of having been forced to live in such a situation.
Another judgment passed on the same date was in regard to a hapless citizen named Azam in Chhattisgarh State who has been awarded a compensation of Rs 5 lakhs for the inhuman treatment meted out to him by police men. The government has been asked to recover the sum from those very police men who forced the victim to pose for a photograph with a placard on his chest declaring himself to be a thief, fraud, cheat and rascal and getting the same published. The protectors were at work as usual. Who is to check these uniformed devils!
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