I have studied the governing principle in law - everybody is equal before law. But that is theory. In practice - might is right, money is power. Nobody can touch the rich the powerful and above all we have a protected class - political leaders - they will never go to jail. The ordinary workers of all parties get punishment by courts. After all India is the largest democracy by its size and smallest democracy when the rules are implemented.
RE:Everybody is equal
by Kabeer on Aug 22, 2007 04:08 PM Permalink
This holds true even in the developed societies. A serving President of the United States lied under oath and he was exonerated with a mild rap on the knuckles! Thousands take oath every day in the US and India and one proven lie under oath is enough for them to be convicted.
Actually, it is amusing that the witnesses and others are supposed to take oath that they will tell the truth and only the truth, no such oath was required by the Judges that they will deliver impartial justice and for the advocates no oath is required that they only prove the truth and nothing but the truth.
These assumptions are fallacious at the root level
