One of the main guideline for our judiciary, “Its better to leave 100 criminals than to punish 1 innocent.” Dont’ you think this has been taken in wrong way or it has lead to wrong way? The core reason of increasing crime in India is just slow judiciary system. The liberal laws defined for crime in India is not affecting Indian society as much the slow system is doing. Thats’ also, but can be ignored right here.
Have you ever thought, why it is said that the child whose parents does not keep a strict eye on him, gets in spoil sport. Our elders generally say such. In our new and advanced generation where our elders are just said they are having old thoughts, we, actually, should never ignore phrases like this.
Lets fall into certain questions..
Why there used to be strict punishments in old day schools?
All this was just to maintain discipline and righteousness among the growing minds.
Why a child did not dare to steal a penny from his father’s wallet, and even if he knew where the safe is?
Why a toddlers did not fight with each other, in those days?
Why a student kept his homeworks already done, and never copied it from a fellow, in the class?
Just because, “Ma datengi”, “Papa Marenge”, “Masterjee se Sticks Lagenge”.
This was the instant fear among them. Only this used to keep them away from small crimes.
Why a boy never used to tease a fellow girl in school?
Why a child never used to steal books from others bag?
All falls to the same answer…
But, when it comes to the real world, the so-called “Mummy, Papa, Teacher” are either missing or too slow to give punishment to thechild inside.
Today, a rapist has no fear of getting into jail, a murdered has no fear of getting sentenced to death, a corrupt officer has no fear of any legal action. Why, just because of our slow judicial system. If a rapist is even arrested, the next day he gets bail and then the case goes for ever. Both the sides visit the court for years and at last the poor victim has to leave the process after getting disappointed. What about the rapist? He made the crime, just visited jail for a couple of hours and that too in a very few cases and rest nothing… He lives as normal as everyone and searching for the next victim. Why would he fear? Take the example of Saudi Arabia. The rapist is hanged there and in some country, sex organs are cut for the rapist. Just think, if the judiciary is something like this, whether the rate of rape in India will go down, yes obviously, but very little. Why, because the decision will come even after natural death of the victim.
Then, obviously, there is need of speeding up the legal system. I am not blaming the judges, just I want to say that there is need of complete reform in our judicial system, in our judiciary, size of judiciary.
India in 2020 can not run properly with the system defined in 1950. There has to be some change, else this society cant’ be a safe a healthy place to live and develop.
Also, I would like to mention one quote “Prevention is better than cure”. Here, Cure is Judiciary and strict legal actions and Prevention is Education System and Grooming of Child’s intellect in the family. Rest, you can think, what should be done. Also, there used to be a word in news some years ago, and that was Lokpal Bill, but no idea where it went. Bollywood movies like Jolly LLB and sequels have tried to show what should be there in judiciary… but its still loading … !!