Capital Punishment in India – An unsolved mystery

Capital Punishment – YES or NO, is a big question. I might sound very pro to capital punishments in this article, but this is not an article pro or anti capital punishments. It is the process which concerns me more.

I am not sure why there are so many dilemmas around capital punishments in INDIA. It is a killer of a former Prime-minister or a terrorist who killed many innocents Indians, INDIA has found it hard to execute capital punishments in time. Today’s article in TOI provoked me to write this post and get me back to blogging. The way in which the capital punishment charges against terrorists are being executed is probably more complicated than “Himesh’s” relationship status. Let me share the process in brief (might not be 100% exact, but good enough to convey the message)

Some examples for this process are: Masterminds behind assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi (Event occurred – 1991, Supreme court hailed Capital Punishment in 1999, President confirmed hailed the same in 2011 and now they again moved to High court?); Master mind behind the attack on Indian parliament, an attack which almost broke war between India - Pakistan – Afzal Guru (Event occurred in 2001, HC paved the way for capital punishment in 2004, and now the plea is with president for all these years, a decision is yet to come and we experience a threatening attack today); Mr. Kasab who is one of the celebrity or recent times (Event occurred – 2008, Currently step 1 is cleared, but final verdict is still fr from reach)

In this whole process the precious time of judicial system, public money is wasted in the security of the terrorist, and such bomb blasts and warnings from their team members are evoked http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/HuJI-claims-responsibility-for-Delhi-high-court-blast/articleshow/9896388.cms.

Can this process not be simplified at least for the high profile terrorists? Rather than sending a strong message to terrorists, are we not calling for another ‘Kandhar (some of you might recall this incident)” or more bomb blast similar to what was experienced today? Can we do something?

More later. Good bye!

Regards,

Puneet