Why is Kasab still alive?
This Kasab thing is getting to be too much. Foremost is the question: Why is this terrorist still alive? Why has the Indian court yet not ordered his hanging?
It is, perhaps, such democracy in the law that not just gives escape routes to terror perpetrators like Kasab but also lends them the bravado to say the most outrageous things in court, that too in a blatant waste of time, money, energy and mandays.
We have already heard and read a lot about Kasab loving paneer; Kasab demanding (and perhaps even getting) biryani feasts; Kasab wanting an appointment with Amitabh Bachchan and Kasab being put up in a high-cost security cordon which has cost the nation Rs 36 crore and mounting!
Pakistan would be a happy nation. For, it managed to not only orchestrate the worst ever terror strike on Indian soil but also has its nation mocking the entire Indian system. Actually, not just mocking but also bleeding. Rs 36 crore is no pithy amount. It can feed thousands of souls who are living and dying in poverty. To spend it on the upkeep of a 26/11 terrorist is criminal, misguided and totally unnecessary.
Come to think of it, there is hardly any reason for the Indian judicial system to take so much time in ordering Kasab’s hanging. On the official level, all that Kasab could tell he already has. And even if he did not, India has a mountain of evidence of Pakistani involvement in 26/11 and no more details are needed.
Kasab, in any case, is just one small little spoke in the wheel of terror; a petty thief picked up and honed for the Mumbai operation by bigtime terror plotters. He is unlikely to lead anyone to anymore incriminating evidence against Pakistan or know even an iota about the futuristics of terror originating in Pakistan.
For all practical purposes, he has finished his job — both for Pakistan and for India. So, he is as dispensable for India as he is for his terror commanders in Pakistan.
And that’s the reason why he must be hanged without delay. It would, of course, be an icing on the cake if it is a public hanging, that too from the ramparts of the Taj Mahal Hotel. Nothing less would be an appropriate signal by the Indian Government that it has gotten serious about its zero tolerance to terror talk.
Till that happens, we can safely go with the annoying view that it happens only in India where a declared terrorist is kept alive and kicking for so long and without much reason. He is eating up public money and he is making a mockery of the court sessions.
Indian courts have much bigger jobs to do other than go round and round a man whose guilt against no less than the nation itself had been proved much before he was sent to court.
Our courts are already burdened with more genuine cases which have not seen the light of day for decades, maybe more. It would be more befitting for our system to clear that backlog instead of hearing baseless statements, blatant turnarounds and general frolicking that Kasab is so merrily indulging in, rather being allowed to indulge in. Nobody, not even Kasab, would be taking himself seriously when he says he came to India through the legal route and was in Mumbai to become an actor. Or for that matter, the claim that he had been arrested days before the 26/11 attack happened.
Of course, it would be too outrageous for us to believe that Kasab is going to escape the noose but in a nation where a convict like Afzal Guru is not being hanged despite a Supreme Court death sentence, apparently for votebank politics, one never knows if Kasab will lie in our jail for life, triggering the risk of a hijacking in the future. At all costs we must avoid that and hang this man ASAP.
It is, perhaps, such democracy in the law that not just gives escape routes to terror perpetrators like Kasab but also lends them the bravado to say the most outrageous things in court, that too in a blatant waste of time, money, energy and mandays.
We have already heard and read a lot about Kasab loving paneer; Kasab demanding (and perhaps even getting) biryani feasts; Kasab wanting an appointment with Amitabh Bachchan and Kasab being put up in a high-cost security cordon which has cost the nation Rs 36 crore and mounting!
Pakistan would be a happy nation. For, it managed to not only orchestrate the worst ever terror strike on Indian soil but also has its nation mocking the entire Indian system. Actually, not just mocking but also bleeding. Rs 36 crore is no pithy amount. It can feed thousands of souls who are living and dying in poverty. To spend it on the upkeep of a 26/11 terrorist is criminal, misguided and totally unnecessary.
Come to think of it, there is hardly any reason for the Indian judicial system to take so much time in ordering Kasab’s hanging. On the official level, all that Kasab could tell he already has. And even if he did not, India has a mountain of evidence of Pakistani involvement in 26/11 and no more details are needed.
Kasab, in any case, is just one small little spoke in the wheel of terror; a petty thief picked up and honed for the Mumbai operation by bigtime terror plotters. He is unlikely to lead anyone to anymore incriminating evidence against Pakistan or know even an iota about the futuristics of terror originating in Pakistan.
For all practical purposes, he has finished his job — both for Pakistan and for India. So, he is as dispensable for India as he is for his terror commanders in Pakistan.
And that’s the reason why he must be hanged without delay. It would, of course, be an icing on the cake if it is a public hanging, that too from the ramparts of the Taj Mahal Hotel. Nothing less would be an appropriate signal by the Indian Government that it has gotten serious about its zero tolerance to terror talk.
Till that happens, we can safely go with the annoying view that it happens only in India where a declared terrorist is kept alive and kicking for so long and without much reason. He is eating up public money and he is making a mockery of the court sessions.
Indian courts have much bigger jobs to do other than go round and round a man whose guilt against no less than the nation itself had been proved much before he was sent to court.
Our courts are already burdened with more genuine cases which have not seen the light of day for decades, maybe more. It would be more befitting for our system to clear that backlog instead of hearing baseless statements, blatant turnarounds and general frolicking that Kasab is so merrily indulging in, rather being allowed to indulge in. Nobody, not even Kasab, would be taking himself seriously when he says he came to India through the legal route and was in Mumbai to become an actor. Or for that matter, the claim that he had been arrested days before the 26/11 attack happened.
Of course, it would be too outrageous for us to believe that Kasab is going to escape the noose but in a nation where a convict like Afzal Guru is not being hanged despite a Supreme Court death sentence, apparently for votebank politics, one never knows if Kasab will lie in our jail for life, triggering the risk of a hijacking in the future. At all costs we must avoid that and hang this man ASAP.
Published on December 20, 2009, Sunday Pioneer; http://www.dailypioneer.com/223807/Why-is-Kasab-still-alive.html
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