while i dont sympathise with this guy at all cause there isnt any regret in what he has done and he deserves more punishment than what he has got, we need to look at this from another angle also. did those ppl have any right to sleep on the pavement. apparently not. pavements are mean for walking and not for sleeping in the night. you can book someone for drunk driving and punish him for that but surely cant blame the deaths of ppl whom the car has run over. its for the state to ensure that the footpaths are not encroached over and ppl dont start sleeping on the streets.
RE:alistair
by M Costa on Apr 19, 2007 08:01 PM Permalink
State is unable to control the ever mushrooming slums,and pavements are enroached by shops, stalls,telephone booths,milk vendors and no body seems to bothered.
These poor labourers were sleeping on the pavement because some contractor has brought them from a poor village to do a job which you and I wont do and since accomodation is at a premium in Mumbai,the poor labourer has to sleep on the pavement. Why blame him.Why make fun of the poor.
