Just-is Denied
37years are good long days to live one life, but if this has to be
spent in a place of no interest to you and without a company of friends and
family may sound insane. Here is a case where a person called Jagjivan who
hailed from the land of Lord Shri Rama, was kept behind the bars for 37 years
without even being trialed.
People living larger than life either gets the privilege of
paroles or to defend their cases with the aid of best lawyers in the business,
even though having known to themselves and the world that they did the crime
for which they are being trialed. But what a poor can do in such scenario, who
normally survives battle everyday for the livelihood of self and his dependant
family.
Whether the person in question was guilty or not is totally a
different case altogether, but firstly he should be bestowed with the
fundamental right of “Right to speech” to under go trial before being
convicted. This might not be a one-off case, and with Digital media becoming
very vigilant in bringing all truth in the public domain, many such heart
touching stories may be revealed.
We blow our trumpets in the name of world’s largest democratic
country, but do we really rejoice the fruits of democracy? Digital technology
can play a major role to encounter injustice or denial of justice. If each case
is trialed on merits…say in ‘Points’ basis. The most heinous crime ranked (baseline points against each
IPC section) above a crime committed which had less impact to society or an
individual’s life. Similarly the weight age of a crime committed in the past
should score more than the one’s committed in the recent time. The algorithm of
many such parameters should gives us the merit list which law has to follow for
fair and transparent trial.
Since law is just one example here with
many such cases in it like 'Malegaon blast' case where trial is yet to commence for
the accused even after 5years ; technology can improve the quality of every
life by having it across various systems and hence giving a Fair, Transparent,
and Swift solutions.
