DC Edit | Nithari: Justice not delivered
Deccan ChronicleIndia is a poor country not because it has no resources but because a large proportion of the people who are tasked with managing those resources give their jobs the short shrift despite elaborate procedure and infrastructure built over years. Every sensible Indian would share the anguish expressed by the Allahabad high court at the tardy investigation in the Nithari serial murder cases. Acquitting the two persons sentenced to death in cases of murder and rape, the court found fault with every step of the investigation process, including collection of evidence and recording of statements. There is a disturbing pattern all over the country where persons accused in cases which attracted public attention get maximum sentences in the lower courts but go scot free when the higher courts subject the pieces of evidence to the rigorous requirements of justice. Monumental state failures in the conduct of criminal prosecution have of late created a new section of society which cries for instant gratification; these people prefer encounter killings to a court sentence.