Certain things exasperate me as I cannot for the life of me understand why nothing is being done in these areas by the successive government.
Every one know that Indian Judicial System is one of the most lenient. Cases take ages to be heard and 99% of the cases lose their relevance by the time the first judgement is passed. The case:judges ratio is mounting. With population exploding, one would have thought the government would have taken steps to increase the number of courts and judges. But what we have are the same number of courts and lesser number of judges (this is because the Government just does not bother to fill the vacancies for political reasons). When we splurge so much on non productive social schemes which serves no purpose, surely we can get sufficient funds to strengthen the judiciary.
Another reason why Judiciary should be strengthened is because the civil society is moving towards anarchy and lawlessness is the norm than exception. This is totally unacceptable. We have one of the finest set of laws, the lacunae is in implementing them. The old adage 'Justice delayed is justice denied' is quite true. But in our case there isn't an assurance that Justice will be obtained even if it is delayed, it is impossible to get justice for anyone. In this aspect we are a egalitarian society. No one gets justice, poor or the rich.
Another area crying for attention is the Police Department. There are two aspects to policing. Crime detection leading to conviction and Crime prevention through intelligence gathering. Unfortunately, the police force in this country have always concentrated only on the crime detection part. Though that doesn't mean that they have a great record on conviction. In fact, the conviction rates are pathetically poor, for reasons like poor techniques, corruption, political interference and the slow judicial process. Our police hardly believes in Crime Prevention through intelligence gathering. 'Prevention is always better than cure'. Many committees have been formed on Police Reforms since 1980's but to no avail. The Police system is in a moribund state. When the common man loses faith in the Police, warning bells should start ringing. But the bells have been tolling so loud for so long but our leaders have turned a deaf ear. Earlier we modernise the police force, pay them competitive wages so as to attract the best talents, reduce political interference and incentivize them based on prevention and conviction rates, the better for the country...................to be continued
