Up to now we have suffered the downside of public people. They had politics on their side and the law could not touch them. It was galling when a tarred presidential candidate could blissfully mouth platitudes and shrug away shameful charges far more serious than those of a spoilt brat, or when a successful politician who had conspired to destroy our most beautiful structure could claim innocense because of the ace up the sleeve.
Sanjay Dutt%u2019s ruthless sentencing is going to give us back our pride in the system. I am sure it will be strengthened to withdraw from the politicians their cloak of immunity for the people will appreciate justice. A good man must suffer because he did wrong. It is necessary for social cleansing. Politicians too must submit to high standards of justice so that our society may live.
There is meaning in Sanjay Dutt's going to jail. But he will not remain there long for nobody wishes it to be so. And the longer he is in the more difficult it shall be to conduct dirty politics.
I thank Sanjay Dutt and Justice Kode for setting us free.
