Saturday, December 09, 2006





Ram Jethmalani, said to be India's best criminal lawyer, started his career at the Mumbai courts with Rs.10 in his pocket.


I've heard poverty makes people hardened, kills their conscience, and makes them aloof to all kinds of injustices.


But here, we see an extreme.He has jailed Sanjay Gandhi at Tihar 4 a month for excesses during the emergency, remanded Indira Gandhi to the same 4 10 days, prosecuted Maha CM A R Antulay, investigated the Bofors scandal, defended the constitutionality of implementing the Mandal Comission Report, among others...

His recent adventure is the controversial Jessica Lal case, in which he defends Manu Sharma, son of a powerful politician in Delhi, 4 killing former model Jessica Lal in front of about a hundred people, all of whom went hostile, 1 by 1.

I can imagine how he must gloat at home about his victories 4 d rich and notorious, 4 there is a larger number of cases in which he has acquited people whom all of us know by instinct are guilty of the allegations.

maybe he just came on the scene when the scene of india's politics had deteriorated so sharply and dramatically, that he had no way to go but the winning way.and of course there is a brilliant mind at work behind that 'innocent-old-man' look. The problem is, we are so indifferent to these court proceedings that we let all this happen and let reporters blare it out at us from the T.V, and blame the country's law and order system. Wouldn't any of us have tried to stick the case in court if Jessica was our own kin or friend or neighbour?we would have.

But here, it is obvious that we won't. Blame the system, the system sucks.

Blame the system, it deprived u of an education u deserved.

Blame the system, it gave ur promotion to sm1 else just belonged to a 'backward' caste.

And do nothing at all in ur whole life but blame the system.

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