the power of money and influence

There are two worlds that live in India, actually three. The first is the group that makes money, pays taxes, and is under the purview of the law of the land. The second is the one that makes money, hides on taxes, is sort of under the purview of the law of the land but have the power to break it, and the third are that are forgotten by the land as it moves forward.

The first one could consist of the millions of India's middle class, the one that is apparently becoming better off with increased globalization and better job opportunity. This group pays its taxes, and hates a run-in with the cops. For most of the people in India, as with this group, cops are nothing but bad news.

The second is the very minute class, the rich and powerful. This could include the very moneyed, because money can buy you politicians, and it includes politicians themselves, because with power comes the opportunity to steal the nation's money, and without doubt our politicians have made the most of it. I think the politicians' immediate family also features in this misuse of power. In fact, I came across a news article about the same thing which made me write this post.

I have a lot of bitterness against our political leadership, and I think the one reason i started this blog was because i was exasperated at how easily our politicians and their cronies can tweak the system and get away with it. It made me wonder, can't we see what is happening, and if we can, don't we have enough numbers in us to get together and make it right? anyway, i'll come back to that thought in a little bit.

The third group is the downtrodden, the utterly poor populace that is of no other use to the powerful politician other than the votes they carry. Most of the money that is spent by the government is supposedly for programs to uplift this last category of the very poor, but I think we would all agree, the crores of rupees spent on welfare schemes probably saw the same fate as burning all that money in a furnace would see.

So the politician controls the rest of the country in two ways. For the middle class, one that pays taxes and fears the law of the land, the politician uses power. He/she threatens dire consequences if they dare go against them. They will use the already rotten police system and the very tweakable judicial system to have it their way.

As for their vote banks, well, a few charged up words with lots of caste and religion thrown in usually does the trick, because apparently the people of this country dont need a working bathroom or a clean street, they'd rather be a proud caste member.

so anyway, a young, independent girl named Jessica Lal was once murdered in cold blood at a party of a very whorish socialite named Bina Ramani. The main accused was the son of a former union minister and his well-off friends. A local court in Delhi finally came out with the verdict and it was? Yep, all accused are aquitted. All hail the judiciary, and all hail political reach. You can do anything in this damn system if you know the right people and have the right amount of money. Those bastards brought over all the witnesses. With money and threats no doubt.

As for the corrupt Delhi police, I know when it comes to graft and misuse of power, the national capital's police leads from the front. But you know, being the national capital, that place is chok-a-blok with the rich and powerful, and I hope they experience the misery and uncertainty that the rest of this country lives in.

My deepest condolances are with her family and may her soul find peace with God. As for the people who got away, I hope they lead a miserable and godforsaken life that gives them more pain than they have given to the innocent. And burn in eternal hell after that, you monsters.

Manu Sharma acquitted in Jessica Lal murder case

Manu Sharma, son of Haryana Minister Vinod Sharma and main accused in the sensational seven-year-old Jessica Lal murder case, was on Tuesday acquitted with eight others by a Delhi Court which held that the police had failed to prove its case.

Those acquitted included Vikas Yadav, son of Uttar Pradesh politician D P Yadav, and the main accused in another sensational case – the murder of Nitish Katara, who was a friend of his sister.

Delivering the verdict, additional sessions judge S L Bhayana said the accused had to be acquitted as three key witnesses -- model-turned actor Shayan Munshi, Karan Rajput and Shiv Das, the electrician at the restaurant where the model was shot dead -- had turned hostile.

It was alleged that the victim, who was working as a bartender, was shot by Manu alias Siddharth Vashisht as she had refused to serve him liquor at the party hosted by Ramani for her Canadian husband George Malihote, who was to leave India the next day.

Besides Manu and Vikas, others who faced the trial were -- Amardeep Singh Gill alias Tony, Aloke Khanna (both senior officials in a leading soft drink company), Shyam Sunder Sharma (relative of former President Shankar Dayal Sharma), Harvinder Chopra, Vikas Gill, Raja Chopra, and former Indian cricketer Yograj Singh.