It is with a heavy heart that I am writing this note and in response to a number of mails that I have got asking me to endorse the ongoing protests by lawyers in Tamil Nadu. What saddens me is that lawyer friends with strong moorings in Human Rights and have often gone out of their way in defending the people socially and politically shunned are also circulating these mails.
Police brutality anywhere in the world has to be condemned - and there is not even an iota of doubt that most of this brutality goes on with impunity. And there may be no doubt that the Tamil nadu police acted with utmost impunity Having said that, I do not think people in glass houses should throw stones at others I also think, those circulating these mails should introspect a little The last few days has seen the police and lawyers being at logger heads and number of remand prisoners across tamil nadu facing the consequences. I do not have to remind my enlightened lawyer friends the socio-economic strata of society from where these under-trials come from. And given the claim of absolute brutality of the police, I wonder who would protect these poor souls from the police. Who are we kidding? The legal profession in India is perhaps the most non-transparent in terms of its functioning I would challenge any person to show me a simple court process in the trial court that can happen without a single instance of corruption. The profession has been riddled with castiesm and gender prejudice. Professional upward mobility in caste and gender terms is demonstrably most difficult in the legal profession - one just needs to do an audit of appointments to higher judiciary. But no, as the guardians of the Law, we will remain above the Cosntitution and the Law. We will roughshod and criticise every other isntitution while we remain feudal and head strong in our performance Jai Hind -- Bobby Kunhu http://community.eldis.org/myshkin/Blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
