The contempt of court law in Chennai, India, is really an eye wash. Here no human can whisper about human rights because Chennai does not believe in freedom for the general public. The governments here are more inclined towards fleecing the public through deceptions. If anyone goes to courts with a contempt of court petition against anyone who has political pull it immediately becomes such a drama and spreads to all fields. Proof of that is my dismissed case. There was an interim injunction obtained and a contempt of court petition filed against a reserve policeman, the defendant. This was willfully overlooked by lawyers making us go in for an anticipatory bail just because the reserve police and his mother gave 2 separate complaints according to the police stations daily register. The judge did not bother to ask me if wanted to by pass the contempt. What rights do the courts judges and lawyers have to overlook the common mans sufferings just because it is a puppet in the hands of the unprincipled politicians and police.
The atrocities in Tamil Nadu where the police itself manipulate everything to pamper the politicians and fan their egos is considered THE way of life. This is clear when the one they target, come up in life. No one would expect anyone to be as cunning as the politicians and police put together. They do not do this work without the support of the misguided lot in the general public. Probably that is easy, because here people are divided in many ways. The more the divisions, the more the avenues for distortion of facts especially when all make sure that the victim is never involved in anything. Here people are divided in religion and caste. All the governments here love to run off to the religious playground using one player against the other while they are the spectators chipping in now and then to make or maintain rifts. No human can belong to all religions but we are all meant to love God as one and live on this one earth. So what if God has different names? Everybody has different names in one lifetime. everyone is a child, adolescent girl or boy,daughter or son, mother or father, niece or nephew etc etc. Our names change with each person we relate to. I have been blessed by being brought up by 2 mothers from 2 different religions. The one God has worked wonders through them without whom my prayers would have been incomplete.
Coming back to the time when we moved in to our new own premises; two men came with a roadside tailor demanding money. With the help of a lawyer a complaint was lodged in the police station where we learned that the 2 men were actually its constables. Then a reserve police uses the same station and becomes contemptuous of the law and I went to the commissioners office for protection as the court was not in a mood of implementing the law.(it was too busy giving legal rights to my lawyer to by pass the contempt without my consent so I can be fooled legally) The legal courts have nothing to do with the police.They run separately. And yet, the common man cannot find justice from the law as it reverses its stand on its own dignity regarding contempt of court orders. I must say the words justice delayed is justice denied is another eye wash because if there is a case against the police or government the hearing of any contempt will be denied, case dismissed and all evidence overlooked even when the governments and police have nothing as evidence. This proves that India is in the hands of dictators and democracy is a needed hypocrisy dispensed off everyday as a formality. I can safely conclude that the police and courts are related - maybe like the politicians who bring in relatives and friends into their parties, the state and country like it is their kingdom and so have every right to continue the wrongful deeds without rectification of the old ones. It is so easy to push uncomfortable truths under the carpet. It is even more easier to suppress all opposition. No wonder the world faces global financial crisis, global terrorism, global warming and global discontentment.
Coming back to law, amazing how one judge issues an injunction making my case valid while another dismisses the same (are there different laws for different judges?) And to top it all the reserve police has been allowed to be contemptuous of the law and i had to go in for a bail and ask the police protection against the police itself. The police seem to have been given rights to break the law until they are questioned by the layman whom they harass - if the layman does not ask for protection the police just continue harassing while if protection is given then the law washes its hands off rendering justice. No wonder no one believes in the law and democracy as the law makers become law breakers very slowly and meticulously. The dignity of law is clearly seen in the clashes in the law colleges in Chennai. Law is in the politicians hands. Are they related? Can the courts too like politicians say its better than the police department and politicians and turn a blind eye to all that is uncomfortable within its own premises? Has it given rights to politicians and police to be contemptuous of law? Can it turn a blind eye to the life long scar such delays cause to the affected party especially women who are harassed on all sides due to the courts negligence for 1 week or 1 year or eternity? If that is legal, then what of the dignity and safety of women, children and the commoner?
Bhuvaneswari Calambakkam
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