FINALLY THE JUSTICE
   Date :09-Jan-2020

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FINALLY the four convicts in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case will be hanged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail on January 22. The justice to the victim’s family comes after seven long years. Such a long wait for justice in a heinous crime as gang-rape and murder certainly calls for a relook at the justice delivery system in the country. There is a need to review the long-winding process of delivering justice. Nobody of course will vouch for instant justice as that would again be a travesty of the legal process enshrined in the country’s legal system. Hence it is essential to go through the process before a conclusive decision is arrived at so that no innocent person gets unjustly punished. But the expectation is that the end of the case should act as a deterrent for evil-doers. After the Nirbhaya case there was a lot of churning going on throughout the country about how to quicken the process of law to deal with heinous crimes like rape and murder. Ever since the country’s Parliament and legal luminaries have been brain-storming on formulating stringent laws and pave way for faster justice delivery.
 
SHUN POLITICS
 
VICE President Mr. Venkaiah Naidu has very justly hoped that our educational institutions become the centres for nurturing democratic values and not pandering to factional politics. In fact politics should have no place in these temples of education. Their principal concern should be pursuit of academic excellence so that the graduates and post-graduates coming out of these temples of learning would serve the society with merit and safeguard the constitution. That should be the abiding faith. Obviously such an advice from the anguished Vice President has come in the wake of Sunday’s violence on the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Some masked goons had unleashed violence in the campus injuring students and teaching staff there, tarnishing the image of one of the eminent educational institutions. It is unfortunate that petty politics has entered the august portals of the university, vitiating academic atmosphere there and divided the student community on partisan lines. This needs to be abhorred.