Barriers to Justice in India
Barriers to seek
justice for minorities in India
There is no question of barriers to justice when
you have perpetrators in position of power to administer justice, how do you
expect them to go for extreme suicidal step of delivering you justice. As long
as the power formation of the laws of the lawlessness will remain in existence
and the state is perpetrator of crimes, there will be no justice. If you allow
to be taken captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy of governance and
justice against which your forefathers sacrificed their lives, then you
deserved it.
The biggest barrier in seeking justice in India is
the existing state and its attendant institutions of coercive criminal justice
system of India that was founded by the colonial rulers and functions on the
principle of deception and surprise. The foremost and time-tested principal
employed by armies from around the world to win the wars is the principle of
deception, to surprise the enemy. The moment enemy succeeds in surprising you
to the extent that you perceive him your ally and protector; you are in the
midst of a disaster for extinction. The communities that are victims of
injustice in post-1947 India are all the victims of colonial India and the two
most deceptive institutions of colonial state, the local militia, named as
police & " the Indian judiciary " both of these institutions
function and follow all the colonial laws, protocols and practices &
workculture, that were designed to terrorise and brutalise the public to
generate sense of fear and ensure wilful subjugation of communities, for
unhindered economic exploitation and that’s what these two institutions have
been deceptively doing. In the democratic setup of India both these
institutions are mandated for delivering security and justice to the people but
the past practical experiences of people on ground substantiate that security
and justice is made first casualty by these very two institutions.
The blueprint of these injustices was made by
Benjamin Franklin while writing the rules of colonialism, where he says however
peaceably your colonies have submitted to your government, shown their
affection to your interests, and patiently borne their grievances, you are to
suppose them always inclined to revolt and treat them accordingly. Quarter
troops among them, who by their insolence may provoke the rising of mobs, and
by their bullets and bayonets suppress them. Whenever the injured come to the
capital with complaints of maladministration, oppression, or injustice, punish
such suitors with long delay, enormous expense and a final judgement in favour
of the oppressor.
The Sikh community, the community of warriors, the
community that was founded to fight injustice, finds itself as the worst victim
of injustices perpetrated not only by political families of majoritarian Hindu
community but also by both of these deceptive institutions of police & the
alleged Indian judiciary for having raised its voice against injustice and
these deceptive institutions have dealt with the Sikh community in accordance
to the colonial work culture of terrorising and brutalising the complainants of
injustice and advance the agenda of the oppressor state.
The exploitative regime of colonialism, functions
on the principle of denying the principal identity of communities by decimating
it, through brutalities & terror and by killing the community leaders and
to implement this strategy, it protects its criminal institutions through the
laws of lawlessness and that's what, post 1947 India has been witnessing. The
Sikh community perceives itself as the victim because it raised its voice
against injustice and corruption organised itself to democratically challenge
the state to demand its rights and the colonial state and its autocratic ruler
family that had been nurtured and planted to assume the power deliberately
created the circumstances and used the might of Indian army to eliminate this
purported threat to the sovereignty of India .but Sikh community should not
forget that same treatment is administered to that every community that has its
distinct identity and which raises its voice against corruption, injustice and
perceived as threat by the existing state.
The insurgency of Nagaland happens to be the oldest
insurgency in the country dating back to 1960s. The 21 states of India are
under the shadow of another insurgent movement in the name of naxalites where
unarmed villagers are being killed in the criminal acts of security forces on
regular intervals and community leaders are being tortured to death. The people
of Kashmir have paid a heavy price with their lives and properties for having
raised their voice against injustice and corruption of exploitative regimes but
still it continues unabated. The extra constitutional laws, created by the
autocratic rulers of post-1947 India who had assumed the powers of governance
from Britishers have kept on succeeding in maintaining status quo by enacting
new laws of lawlessness use of Indian army by a state that remains on war with
its own people all the time is all part of the post colonial colonialism that
perceives Indian society, only through the prism of the ruler and the ruled.
The exploitative regime of this post 1947 colonialism has its own social order
of the ruler and the ruled and any community or individual, who so ever will
endeavour to destabilise this social order will be killed by the state forces
or through judicial murders and it is continuing unabated.
It is the biggest propaganda and
fraud of 21st century when India claims itself as the world's largest
democracy. On the eve of departure from India, the British Rulers
handedover the colonial power structure to those political people who were
broughtup and conversant with British culture and British value system. and had
been acting middleman to diffuse the pressure on colonial rulers by
channelising the energy of revolting public from grassroots. This
Political leadership with complete loyality to its British Masters not only
continued all the antidemocratic laws, rules regulations and protocols and
practices in post independent India, they adopted harshest parts of British
laws(Government of India Act 1935, Defence of India rules 1910 and redrafted as
Defence of India Act 1915) while writting democratic constitution. All
those people who were educated and broght up with British education and language
wrote democratic constitution of Independent India with antidemocratic laws in
tandem.In the name of democracy, India though adopted electoral system but it
has continued all the colonial laws of lawlessness and its complete governance
apparatus including deceptive judiciary that functions on the principles of
absolute discretion and complete immunity to accountability and sole reason of
endemic corruption and injustice to its people. It is the judicial corruption
and exploitation of governance apparatus protected by local militia in the form
of police and Indian army that has led to the emergence of new class struggles
in the country.
Nowhere in the world, justice can be dispensed to
the people through the laws and the language that remains alien to the social
fabric of that society. The Indian judiciary is still following all the
colonial laws that were created by Britishers and worded and structured in a
way that gives absolute discretion and liberty of interpretation to suit it to
its arbitrary judges and accordingly the judicial officers take full advantage
of these laws to advance the agenda of state actors/accused and fulfil own
vested interests and inflicts injustice to the complainants. The rampant
corruption prevalent in judiciary and the police has led to the rejection of
both these institutions by the common man on the street and victims of violent
crimes keep dying due to public apathy that emanate out of public distrust on
these two institutions. As a matter of practice, where ever state actors have been
found to be involved in extrajudicial killings or fake encounters the accused
persons are allowed to die their natural death before justice is dispensed in
such cases. All the cases of corruption or injustice filed against the state
actors or even the criminal cases of henious crimes or even rape and murder
remain pending in the courts for decades that give advantage to the criminals
and inspire their confidence on the courts and the rise in the number of such
crimes on the streets is directly attributable to judicial corruption.
The politically elected representatives that are
made accountable by public every five years do not have an independent
capacity, experience, specialisation & visualisation to bring institutional
and structural changes to democratise the existing apparatus and completely
bank upon the bureaucratic machinery for policy formulation and this
bureaucratic machinery remains on the spree to get enacted Draconian laws to
crush the voices of political dissent that are outcome of the conflict between
the Democratic aspirations of the people and the existing governance apparatus
and its laws.
In such a state of crisis when complete Indian
nation is coming in direct conflict with its ruling class, comprising of
corrupt political leadership, bureaucracy, judiciary and corrupt media, the
onus lies on those community leaders of character and integrity, who can make
personal sacrifices of their time and money and organise communities to save
Indian society from the onslaught of state institutions and strengthen the
political leadership with evidence-based informations for policy formulation
for repealing of antidemocratic laws and democratisation of all the governance
institutions including police and judiciary. Till such time many more innocent
people may have to fall victims to not only injustice and corruption but
judicial murders by Indian states and its coercive judiciary and we may have to
accept it for having reposed our trust in deceptive institutions and hollow
philosophy of establishing the world’s largest democracy.