Real culprits are those who don't speak up!

In the game of Powerful Vs powerless in the society, we all know that powerful wins hands-down but there are increasing number of instances, which appalls to an extent of thinking whether all honesty and justice have died and decayed long ago.

Recent news on the case of Jessica Lal will only make one wonder where is our country heading too. Everyone knows who the culprit is and with numerous eye-witness, our judiciary cannot punish the guilty for more than 10 years.

This is certainly not a one-off case as the list extends for miles to stun us completely. While Media could pick-up high profile cases like Jessica Lal, Priyadarshini Matto and Nitish Katara, hundreds of thousands of similar cases, with clear evidences, yet blatant negligance of truth, are languishing in court rooms for decades.

The small satisfaction got by looking at the small percentage of cases where speedy justice delivered, washes away quickly once we see the background of most of the convicts - People subjected to abjunct poverty,under-previlaged and tribals, who can neither hire a lawyer nor defend themselves; Police system hastily speedens the process of trail and judiciary is quick in nailing them down without giving the powerless, a chance. However, high-profile men, be it Navjot Singh Sidhu getting conviction after 18 years for murder trail, while all these years, he was hitting beaches from Sidney to Carribean, and contesting & winning Parliamentary election even after conviction, or be it Sanjay Dutt romancing with his heroines, and getting multiple bails even after conviction. This makes one wonder whether our judiciary can be trusted anymore? Should the mechanical scale on the hands of justice-angel be replaced with a Digital one?

Finally, after done with complaining the system, its time again to look at citizen's roles and their colossal failures. Are we not part of anything happening around? Is not securing justice for victims, at least for ones in our vicinity, our responsibility? Can what happened to him today, not happen to us tomorrow? Will we cry & act only if it happens to us, not to our neighbours? Are we not more culpubale to remain mute spectator at atrocities than the criminal himself?

As the famous German Peom "First they came" describes the inactivity of citizens:

First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left
to speak up for me.


To sustain in this game of life and death between powerful and powerless, powerless and under-served people have to unite to survive and fight against the evils who always unite easily among themselves. Comradeship should be build among poor communities and culture of people standing up for each other should be developed as against turning blind-eye towards atrocities happening to your brethern living next door.

If we choose to continue to live the way we are, we should not cry for help later as there will be none left to save us.