The sender of the email, would likely have a setup behind him. To even inititate legal proceedings would not be easy, if non-Islamic forces are involved.
First info-warefare needs to be overcomed, which would involved denigeration, hood-winking, subterfuge and offensive propaganda of severe proportion, far more than what India can bear. The initial effort would be to nip it in the bud.
The first few steps need to be diplomatic. First disenegage from an active initiatives being undertaken.
Provide adequate time for Indian economic leaders upto middle level to take suitable measures to prepare for the inevitable counter measures which would be applied on India.
Legal stepsto be effective ought to work on fidility to sanctity of India with no scope for any negotiation and full scope subjection to Indian law of all guilty persons.
The series of measures required to be able to lift the issue, step by step to a level commensurate with the counter measures which would have already been thought out shall not be easy.
Onw hopes that such an outcome never arises, but need to be prepared is also important. The fuzzy feelings associated with the outcome is not positive. And it is time the guilty ones be made to pay the cost of their crimes.
RE:Worst case scenario - if true
by teen paise on Jul 30, 2008 04:20 AM Permalink
Making politician make a statement, the way late Indiira Gandhi attempted would be counter-productive. It would be better to make allusions and layered internal communication such that within India a significant constituency understands the stakes involved and prepares adequately for long term attirition.
RE:Worst case scenario - if true
by teen paise on Jul 30, 2008 04:26 AM Permalink
If true all the guilty ones need to be taken care off, the way Israel has gotten after all Nazi perpetrators.
RE:Worst case scenario - if true
by teen paise on Jul 30, 2008 04:36 AM Permalink
First all legal measures need to be tried. It is likely that in the 'nation of laws', legal measures could work. But the way it happened with Bhopal Gas Tragedy does not seem assuring and the stakes here are obviously many times higher.
Any non-legal approach is likely to fail and political approaches is probably impossible.
RE:Worst case scenario - if true
by teen paise on Jul 30, 2008 04:39 AM Permalink
Legal approach necessarily implies that one is innocent unless proved guilty. But in this scenario, even if guilty to enforce it would be a complex and difficult exercise. We need to take care to minimise the cost to the nation which ensuring the guilty ones are brought to books.
RE:RE:Worst case scenario - if true
by teen paise on Jul 30, 2008 04:40 AM Permalink
Keeping in mind our expereiences in the past. Keeping in mind what Mr. Pinter mentioned in his Nobel Prize speech, there is sufficient ground for being prepared carefully for such an eventuality.
RE:Worst case scenario - if true
by teen paise on Jul 30, 2008 05:35 AM Permalink
Prefer to invoke the approaches of persons like Alfred P Sloan and Peter Drucker to handle the situation institutionally and thereby maximise the punishment to the guilty, in case the need ever arises.
RE:Worst case scenario - if true
by teen paise on Jul 30, 2008 06:31 AM Permalink
Even if found really guilty, it would not be easy to progress with the case. There would perhaps be even offers for easy terms on N-deal and other lures as well as threats. It makes sense to see the N-deal as recognition, a belated one, of Indian Constitution and Indian Law. Any political negotiation to compromise on applicability of Indian law would dilute this premise itself, therefore would be unconstitutional.
