Ajmal Kasab, the rampager, has been sentenced to death by hanging. Quite deserving of applause, this judgment is. However I hardly think he, or his supporters would lose a moment's cool by this act, which may prove only a prelude to the drama to be unleashed by the lotus eaters of Indian polity.
On the day Ajmal Kasab has been sentenced to death, a number of Indians ask this question. Six years back, another terrorist was sentenced to death. He is still living, having evaded his sentence for the past 4 years. The person who master minded an attack on the very symbol of India's democracy, still lives under the patronage of Indian Taxpayer. By all accounts it looks like he is assured of a safe and secure future with full facilities in Indian Penal System.
I would not be surprised if Kasab also received the same treatment. Most likely 5 years from today, we would still be seeing clemency requests filed on behalf of these terrorists by the exalted "human rights groups.
There are people who raise the arguments about our being a civilized society, about the disdain for "an eye for an eye". Sure closseted in their safe and secure environs, they can claim so. However they forget that the moment society loses the belief in crime and punishment, law and order would fail.
Not long ago TV news channels had run back to back videos of mob atrocities, people taking law into their hands to punish criminals. Those were truly ugly scenes. Those are the results of the above mentioned loss of trust in law and order. When judiciary and government proves themselves unwilling to protect the citizens, the people are bound to take the law into their own hands. Otherwise it is unrealistic to expect people to lie down and let their lives be violated with impunity.
Kasab should be executed, and there should not be any extension to his sentence. Let there not be another mockery of India. For each day these terrorists live beyond their sentenced hour, the terrorists and anti-national forces get emboldened.
Imprisonment is no punishment for them either. For certain classes of criminals death is the only punishment. Incarceration is for two purposes, rehabilitation and punishment. These criminals refuse to be rehabilitated. They are supposed to be incarcerated, aka removed from society to prevent their harms upon it, but it rarely works that way. We know several instances of criminals operating from within the walls of prisons. Even a state was ruled from within prison. Also these terrorists being incarcerated only create more opportunities and enticements for further terrorist acts.
Another Rubaiyya Sayeed incident and our political over lords would bend over backwards and further beyond to protect one of their own, even if it is to release most deadly criminals. Another Kandahar incident and countless innocent citizens would be put under threat of death to free these scum. Why create such opportunities?
These scum have been interrogated extensively, every last bit of intelligence has been extracted, their complicity and the hand of their parent nation has been proved beyond reproach. Now enough with dossier bombing and just execute him.
Society needs retribution, society needs revenge. Provide it, else society will take matters into its own hands. Then things would get ugly. Very ugly indeed.
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