I am not talking about any specific murder of any specific RTI Activist. Lawyers and Judges everyday deal with Criminal Appeals arising form murders. Side by side we also learn "How a Person Can be Murdered in open day light, in presence of witnesses, and the criminal can still remain out of clutches of Law".
Scan your own memories of murders of RTI Activists in last 5 years. Have real culprits ever brought under the clutches of law? They cannot be. These are planned murders. It is good if some one is convicted. But I don't really recall.
Now again scan your memories of such murders. Do you see any patterns ?
There are patterns. And thousands of Lawyers and Judges are aware about these patterns.
For one thing, you may see a gap between time of Death and time of registering FIR (First Registration of Crime Information). You will begin to see more things if you will start comparing news reports of various mysterious murders. Not much skill is needed. Just becoming aware is enough. And if you yourself are a RTI Activist, it may be a good idea to study news reports of few RTI Activists deaths. Becoming aware is always good.
There is little which a lawyer or a judge can do to plug these loopholes in law. There is little which Central Government can do. Police Reforms is State subject. Each State has to plug loopholes and implement police reforms..We can only hope that Supreme Court will do something.
This blog is hardly a place to discuss these patterns. It may do more harm than good. It may serve some purpose if such things are discussed before a Commission for Suggesting Police Reforms. Otherwise it is useless to discuss this issue.
And after all what who reads our blogs? Who reads our tweets? Does anyone here really can bother about anyone else?
Haresh Raichura
11th May, 2012
Scan your own memories of murders of RTI Activists in last 5 years. Have real culprits ever brought under the clutches of law? They cannot be. These are planned murders. It is good if some one is convicted. But I don't really recall.
Now again scan your memories of such murders. Do you see any patterns ?
There are patterns. And thousands of Lawyers and Judges are aware about these patterns.
For one thing, you may see a gap between time of Death and time of registering FIR (First Registration of Crime Information). You will begin to see more things if you will start comparing news reports of various mysterious murders. Not much skill is needed. Just becoming aware is enough. And if you yourself are a RTI Activist, it may be a good idea to study news reports of few RTI Activists deaths. Becoming aware is always good.
There is little which a lawyer or a judge can do to plug these loopholes in law. There is little which Central Government can do. Police Reforms is State subject. Each State has to plug loopholes and implement police reforms..We can only hope that Supreme Court will do something.
This blog is hardly a place to discuss these patterns. It may do more harm than good. It may serve some purpose if such things are discussed before a Commission for Suggesting Police Reforms. Otherwise it is useless to discuss this issue.
And after all what who reads our blogs? Who reads our tweets? Does anyone here really can bother about anyone else?
Haresh Raichura
11th May, 2012
