I don’t know whether justice was
served in the case of Nambi Narayanan (ISRO Scientist) who was recently compensated by
Supreme Court of India in case of fabricated charges i.e. spying.
The best part after 24 years
Supreme Court has appointed a committee to find the conspirators involved. In
this matter I have few questions?
- Can we call this judicial efficiency?
- Now since State (i.e. police force) has erred as Supreme court stated will the State on its own compensate Maldivian national Mariam Rasheeda and others? Why she has to sue Kerala Cops?
- Why State is not coming forward and accept that there was error and irresponsibility in case of false espionage case?
- Will State now recover all the salaries and pensions paid to “DGP Siby Mathews and two retired superintendents of police, K K Joshua and S Vijayan, who were later held responsible by CBI for the scientist's illegal arrest” since 1994?.
- Will AK Anthony, Oomen Chandy and others who played politics with former Chief Minister Karunakaran based on false allegations, present apologies?
- Will India take some action against United States of America (CIA spies), who it is believed that has some role”?
- Is Nambi Narayanan, Ms Rasheeda etc. were collateral damages of Statecraft indulged by Politicians , Bureaucrats’ and spies?
I think the interview of Nambi
Narayanan in www.livemint.com is worth reading. A portion of the interview is
presented below:
On Hope:
“I’d be receiving compensation and the Supreme Court has also appointed
a committee, for which two members will be nominated by the state and the
centre. They will be finding out who all were involved in fabricating the case
and implicating me, and how they did it. All of that is going to come out.”
On painful experience:
“Say for example, my wife was going in an
autorickshaw to a temple, the driver comes to know that she was the wife of a
spy, he stops the vehicle and asks her to get out. She was stranded on the
streets, while it was raining. Now, is this normal life?”
On Political leaders , Political parties and Judiciary System:
“I was on one side,
power was on the other. Both the state and the central governments were against
me. There was politics involved. The man
who created the case became the opposition party and the man who reaped
benefits became the ruling party. So, I was actually fighting the system.
Now you have such a democratic system, any number of times you can keep on
postponing a case. For example, in Delhi, I filed the case in 2015. But our
system is such that it took three years and 19 adjointments, before we got into
the finality.”
On impact of the judgment:
“This is going to help so many people who
are the victims of khaki power. I’m sure, if not the whole elimination, the
frequency with which it happens, will come down considerably. Look, somebody
makes a case, a false case, throws all his power, political power, official
power, everything and then drags and drags and drags, and runs the whole show
for 24 years.”
You ask any politician he will
state ''I want you to know that
everything I did, I did for my country.''
Guess who said that Pol Pot
(Khmer Rouge Killing at Cambodia).
Final take:
We are expecting too much from democracy, judiciary and politicians.
We have to fight our own battles even if they take life time.
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