I agree with most posts below. This is a bad article by someone who's trying to sound deep.
The worst sentence is this:
"Sanjay has more than paid a price for what was a momentary lapse, not even of conscience, but of judgment."
I am not even going to talk about that. Next in the list of Vamsee's poor thinking is this:
"Such a view does not stand up against the public knowledge that those who have done far worse crimes walk free every day."
By this logic, until the worst criminal in India is punished, no other should be.
Then:
"And it seems, most of all, an utter shame and waste that a man whose work has done more than any other leader or celebrity to revive a passion for Mahatma Gandhi in this country should be locked away."
The movie just _starred_ Sanjay Dutt. He did not envision it, write it or make it. And if not him, there would have been other actors who would do it. Does that make all of them worthy of being let go for crimes?
Next, let Salman Khan make a movie espousing Gandhism, so he can be let go by judges who think like you.
This is one of the worst articles I have read on rediff.com. Every sentence is full of specious logic.
The law _was_ lax and fair towards Dutt - he was not filed under TADA, though his crime technically fell under it. You don't let a person go since he _happened_ to star in a movie about Gandhi. He erred, he was punished.
