Shame on Governance !!

yesterday’s events of arresting Andhrajyothi’s editor put me under great dismay and frustration. I felt helpless seeing the utter injustice happening which was broadcasted live in tv channels. I don’t know how many of us felt the same, but i believe that if your blood boiled watching it we all are on the right track. For the rest of us, it’s another TV Show.Unfortunately we all are forced to become ignorant of some thing which we know by our commonsense. There is no better evidence than this that politics is a merely power game and people’s interest became least priority.

Burning effigies is an established practice in India to show their protest towards anyone. I don’t think the dharna done by Andhrajyothi journalists is beyond that. If it is treated as a damage to the dignity of one leader and in turn to the community it’s a shame on the authorities interpreting this act. I am at complete loss to understand where is ‘Atrocity’ in it. If at all there is an atrocity, it is on the ‘democracy’ which we all feel proud of. How many years does our system took to deliver justice on massive killing of dalits in chunduru ? I hope that our courts will judge fairly and provide a guideline on interpretation of this act and admonish the people exploiting their power under the guise of this act.

SC/ST atrocity act is basically to help social inclusion of Dalits. I would be happy and contented if some one educates me how this particular example helps in serving that purpose. Below is some info extracted from wikipedia about sad state of affairs relating to this act.

“Justice Ramaswamy observed in the case of State of Karnataka v. Ingale[1] that more than seventy-five percent of cases brought under the SC/ST Act end in acquittal at all levels. The situation has not improved much over the last decade. According to the figures given by the 2002 Annual Report dealing with SC/ST Act (of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment) is supports this view. According to which of the total cases filed in 2002 only 21.72% of the total cases were disposed off and out of the disposed cases, a mere 2.31% ended up in conviction. The number of acquittals is 6 times more than the number of convictions and more than 70 percent cases are still pending “