Totalitarianism is practiced with a difference in India. Here we operate with in the democratic framework to create political monsters, who then control executive machinery like the police apart from judiciary to exercise total dictatorship. It is a shame that they can undermine the facets of an open society and influence the media powers to obliterate the rights of a citizen.
Though Karunakaran was forced to resign having to own some responsibility for the incident, there are lots of questions about his arrest and eventual death that are hazy. Who ordered the arrest and torture are still being debated and apart from handing out punishments to the policemen who carried out the order, none of the political bigwigs who could have been involved walked away with minimal impact to their lives or careers.
It is strange and callous that even in a literate state like kerala, were every one is politically conscious , events like that these happened and true justice was never served. This incident some how ( mostly through the efforts of Mr. warrier) gained some publicity, but there are so many political murders that are committed with out any fear of backlash.
