More than equal

Crime Committed: 2002

Verdict: 2015

Verdict announced: 11:15

Sentence delivered: 1:15 pm

High Court Moved for Bail: 3:15 pm

Bail hearing: 4:00 pm

Bail announced: 4:50 Pm

Later the High Court even suspends the sentence of the lower court.

   

See how fast the judiciary has acted for actor Salman Khan after the verdict was pronounced….the fastest bail announcement. If not for Salman, the people have raised doubts if this fastness could have been shown. The whole Khan episode is nothing but what shows how power and money rules. The common man still has to walk down the corridors of powers for justice, but for nothing.

The country also saw hundreds performing havan, poojaas and even coming out in the street for Khan who was sentenced for five years by the local court in a hit and run case. But who was there for the one who died and those who were injured. And no one ever remembered policeman Ravindra Patil, who was the prime witness in the case. Patil died suffering from a strain of TB, but no one was there to help him. Even his family members had deserted him and his body was also never claimed by his relatives.

The court’s decision was widely criticised and many of the people have expressed their displeasure at the decision in the social media. After a few criticism and displeasure, Khan Episode has drifted away just like all the many issues that have always found a grave.

When everyone has equal rights and should be considered equal, why then in India some are more equal. It is not that this is the first instance that the system is considering some as more equals… this has been going on for decades and will go on for decades to come…politics, money, power… the three words that has created more equals among us…