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Sweet child o' mine!

The long wait for justice came with a shocker of an extension when the CBI closed Arushi's case citing lack of evidence. Then came the tussle between the parents and the country's most upright(anything but this) investigating agency followed by an attack on Rajesh Talwar and the Delhi public's Justice march on 30th Jan. In all this, my take is that in a country like India, where politicians are busy firefighting for their wrong doings, where the judicial system is always looked up on with suspicion, where upholders of law are flouting it in the open, its victims like Arushi or her parents who will be left in a lurch to fend for themselves. Be it an eyewitness to such crimes or somebody reading an article such as this, will merely clench their fists till the time they say, arre yaar...kii farkh painda hai, India mein yeh sab to chalta hi rahega. But no! This has to stop. Let there be a beginning to end this habit of "Denying Justice" . Whether this is a case

1 life = Awakening ?

One alive man witnessing a wrong-doing, files an FIR 3 times, yet no action is taken.But, One dead man, brutally murdered, for trying to reveal the wrong doings, gains attention and hence the much-awaited "Action". We are talking about the late Yashwant Sonawane , one of those few honest officers, who wanted to stop the Oil Mafia from conducting their wrong deeds. Though having witnessed the same months ago, no strict action was taken ( despite submitting the raid reports, conducted by him ) to control mafia's activities. But now we see that the incident ( post Mr. Yashwant Sonawane being killed ) has resulted in the government launching a crackdown on adulteration dens around kerosene depots across Maharashtra. If the action ( of putting the criminal behind the bars ) was taken months back when the complaint was filed, it could have actually saved that man from getting killed heinously. There is no point in blaming t