LAWLESSNESS IN INDIA

LAWLESSNESS IN INDIA

OF LATE LAWLESSNESS HAS ACQUIRED THREATENING PROPORTION IN THE COUNTRY AND LAW ABIDING CITIZENS ARE THE INNOCENT VICTIMS OF THIS SITUATION. IT HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT FOR A COMMON INDIAN TO LIVE WITH DIGNITY AND SELF-RESPECT. THE NOTORIOUS ELEMENTS ARE NOW CAPTURING OR CONTAMINATING HONEST SOURCES OF EARNINGS IN THE SOCIETY, WHICH IN TURN FORCE OTHER HONEST PEOPLE TO RESORT TO ILLEGAL METHODS OF BUSINESS. GOVERNMENT OFFICES ARE ALSO RULED BY NOTORIOUS ELEMENTS. OUR YOUNG GENERATION IS GETTING CONVINCED THAT IT IS BETTER TO BE A GOONDA THAN TO BE A LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN IN INDIA AND FACE ALL TYPES OF HUMILIATION AND LIVE IN FEAR. THEY OBSERVE THAT LAWBREAKERS ARE ENJOYING ALL BENEFITS OF DECENT LIFE AND POWER, WHILE LAW ABIDING CITIZENS SUFFER FROM ALL SIDES.


THERE ARE LARGE NUMBER OF REASONS FOR SUCH A SITUATION TO PREVAIL E.G. VERY LOW RATE OF CONVICTION IN COURTS, POLITICAL INTERFERENCE, CORRUPTION, CRIMINALISATION OF POLITICS AND BUSINESS, UNEMPLOYMENT, LOSS OF CONFIDENCE IN JUDICIARY. THE MOST STRIKING REASON IS APATHY AND INDIFFERENCE OF LAW ABIDING CITIZENS OF THE COUNTRY TO UNITE AND EXERT THEIR GOOD NESS. IT IS FOR THIS REASON THAT 10% NOTORIOUS PERSONS HOLD AT RANSOM THE ENTIRE VILLAGE OR CITY AND THE COUNTRY AS A WHOLE. WHEN ONE LAW ABIDING PERSON IS BEING HARASSED BY A SMALL GANG OF STREET GOONDAS, THE LAW ABIDING CITIZENS DESPITE BEING IN LARGE NUMBER AND CAPABLE TO OVERPOWER THE GOODAS, ONLY ACT AS SILENT SPECTATOR THINKING THAT SUCH A SITUATION WILL NEVER HAPPEN TO THEM. THE GOONDAS ARE SO SURE OF TIMIDITY AND INDIFFERENCE OF LAW ABIDING CITIZENS ALL AROUND THAT THEY ARE HARDLY AFRAID OF TOUGH RESISTANCE TO THEM. UNFORTUNATELY DIFFERENT ANTI-SOCIAL PERSONS EASILY GET UNITED TO FORM GANGS.AND THEY THRIVE BECAUSE OF INACTION OF LAW ABIDING CITIZENS.

IT IS NOT FAIR ON OUR PART TO EXPECT POLICE TO PROTECT ALL THE CITIZENS ALL THE TIME. THEY HAVE THEIR OWN LIMITATIONS. SELF-HELP IS THE BEST SOLUTION. IF COMMON INDIAN WANTS TO LIVE WITH DIGNITY AND PEACE, IT IS THE CALL OF THE TIME TO UNITE TOGETHER ON NON-POLITICAL, NON-CASTE BASIS. LET US FORM A LAW-ABIDING UNION/ CASTE AND UNITE TO EXERT OUR GOODNESS AND RIGHT TO LIVE WITH DIGNITY AND PEACE. THE ONLY NEED IS TO THROW OFF WHY-I-SHOULD-BOTHER ATTITUDE AND ACTIVATE OUR GOODNESS. THE ANTISOCIAL ELEMENTS DOMINATE BECAUSE OF THEIR UNITY DESPITE BEING IN SMALL NUMBER; WHILE LAW ABIDING PEOPLE SUFFER THOUGH BEING IN LARGE NUMBER JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT UNITED. THEY MUST NOW REALISE THAT UNITY HAS INVISIBLE FORCE WHICH CAN DESEAT GOVERNMENTS TOO.


WE SHOULD NOT EXPECT GOVERNMENTS TO UNDERTAKE THIS ACTIVITY KEEPING IN MIND THE QUALITY OF POLITICIANS WE ARE FORCED TO ELECT. THE MOVEMENT HAS TO START FROM THE GRASS-ROOT—FROM VILLAGES/STREETS OF TOWNS AND CITIES BY SELECTIVELY ENROLLING THE VOLUNTEERS WHO DESIRE TO CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE LAW AND JUSTICE SHALL ACTUALLY DOMINATE. GOOD INDIAN PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO HELP GOOD INDIANS. THE INDUSTRY WHICH WILL ALSO BENEFIT FROM RULE OF LAW AND PEACE, CAN CREATE PUBLIC AWARENESS THROUGH THEIR FOCUSSED ADVERTISEMENTS ON THIS ISSUE. RETIRED JUDGES, POLICE/MILITARY PERSONNEL, OTHER RETIRED PERSONS, STUDENTS, BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS, UNIONS OF EMPLOYEES, PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS NGOS ETC CAN COOPERATE/START SUCH MOVEMENTS. LET THE ANTI-SOCIAL PERSONS KNOW THAT THEY WILL FACE TOUGH RESISTANCE IF THEY TAKE LAW ABIDING CITIZENS FOR A RIDE. OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL BE THANKFUL TO US FOR HAVING CREATED A SOCIETY WHERE LAW AND JUSTICE ACTUALLY PREVAIL. ANOTHER MAJOR BENEFIT OF THIS MOVEMENT WOULD BE THAT GOOD PEOPLE WILL ENTER POLITICS. GOVERNMENT MACHINERY WILL BE COMPELLED TO FALL IN LINE WITH THE AWARENESS AND ACTIVISM OF LAW ABIDING PEOPLE.

INDIA HAS LARGE NUMBER OF LAWS WHICH ARE OUTDATED AND IMPRACTICAL TO IMPLEMENT. THE COMMON CITIZEN HAS NEITHER THE ACCESS NOR CAPACITY TO UNDERSTAND VARIOUS LAWS AND RULES. EVEN IF HE IS A LAW ABIDING CITIZEN, BECAUSE OF LACK OF KNOWLEDGE AND CAPACITY TO UNDERSTAND AND FOLLOW VARIOUS LAWS AND RULES, THE COMMON MAN GETS CAUGHT IN BREACH OF ONE OR THE OTHER LAW OR RULE.

VARIOUS GOVT DEPARTMENTS ARE HAVING EXPERTISE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE LAWS/RULES AND HENCE THEY CAN DICTATE THEIR OWN INTERPRETATIONS AND TERMS TO THE CITIZEN. THE COMMON MAN CANNOT AFFORD TO AVAIL SERVICES OF EXPERTS IN EACH AND EVERY MATTER. IT IS HERE WHERE CORRUPTION BREEDS AND COMPELS THE LAW ABIDING CITIZEN TO BEND DOWN.

DAY IN AND DAY OUT CENTRAL AND STATE GOVTS AND THEIR LEGAL AUTHORITIES GO ON MAKING LAWS AND RULES AND SUB-RULES WHICH ARE NOT ADEQUATELY PUBLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT OF GENERAL PUBLIC. IT IS HIGH TIME NEWS PAPERS SHOULD TAKE A LEAD IN DAILY PUBLISHING AT LEAST ONE ARTICLE , COVERING MAIN POINTS OF LAWS/RULES .E. G. ELECTRICITY, BANKING, INSURANCE, INCOME TAX, VEHICLES, TRAFFIC,WEIGHT & MEASUREMENT, MOBILES AND OTHER PHONES, COURIER, RAILWAYS, POLICE, MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS, ROAD, AIR TRAVELLING, RIGHTS OF CITIZEN, CONSUMERS RIGHT ETC.

THE GOVTS SHOULD ALSO PUBLISH IN NEWS PAPERS IN LOCAL LANGUAGES GIST OF LAWS AND RULES MADE BY THE PARLIAMENT AND STATE ASSEMBALIES OR LEGAL AUTHORITIES. THIS WILL ENABLE THE CITIZEN TO PROPERLY FOLLOW THE LAWS/RULES OR TO REACT TO THEM FOR AMENDMENTS, BEFORE THEY ARE CAUGHT UNAWARE OF LAWS AND RULES. THE AMENDMENTS SHOULD ALSO GET DUE PUBLICITY BY GOVT OR THE NEWS PAPERS.

LARGE NUMBER OF LAWS AND RULES ARE TOTALLY OUTDATED AND IMPOSSIBLE TO FOLLOW. IF DETAILS OF SUCH RULES, LAWS AND COURT JUDGEMENTS ARE PUBLISHED AS A CONTINUOUS SERIES ON DAILY BASIS BY NEWS PAPERS INCLUDING REPERCUSSIONS OF ITS BREACH, THE PUBLIC WILL SLOWLY BECOME AWARE OF SERIOUSNESS OF EXISTENCE OF SUCH LAWS/RULES/JUDGEMENTS. THIS WILL GENERATE PUBLIC OPINION AND ULTIMATELLY PRESSURE ON THE GOVT TO AMEND/SIMPLIFY OR SCRAP SUCH LAWS/RULES.

THE MAXIM THAT IGNORANCE OF LAW IS NO EXCUSE MAY THEORETICALLY BE CORRECT, BUT IN A DEMOCRACY THE PUBLIC SHOULD AT LEAST BE MADE AWARE OF WHAT THEY ARE TO DO OR NOT DO BECAUSE OF MAKING OF LAWS OR RULES OR AMENDMENTS THERETO INCLUDING JUDGEMENTS OF VARIOUS HIGH COURTS AND SUPREME COURTS. A WELFARE STATE SHOULD NOT KEEP PUBLIC UNAWARE AND IN DARK ABOUT LAWS/RULES/JUDGEMENTS WHICH THE COMMON MAN IS BOUND TO COMPLY. GOVT AND OTHER NGOs MUST REACH OUT TO THE COMMON MEN TO ARM HIM WITH BASIC LAWS/RULES OF HIS DAILY USE, SO THAT HE CAN WILLINGLY COMPLY AND CAN TAKE CARE NOT TO BE CAUGHT UNAWARE OF HIS LEGAL OBLIGATIONS.

STATE BAR ASSOCIATIONS AND LAW COLLEGES CAN ALSO PARTICIPATE BY MAKING INPUT OF LEGAL KNOWLEDGE AVAILABLE FOR USE BY A COMMON MAN IN HIS DAY TO DAY ACTIVITY. PRO-CITIZEN CORPORATE HOUSES CAN ALSO RELEASE SUCH INFORMATION AS PART OF THEIR ADVERTISEMENT COMPAIGNS IN NEWS-PAPERS.

PUBLICITY OF LAWS AND RULES MADE BY GOVTS.

AT PRESENT NEITHER CENTRAL NOR STATE GOVERNMENTS PUBLISH IN PRINT MEDIA MAIN POINTS OF VARIOUS LAWS ENACTED BY THEM. THUS A COMMON CITIZEN IS NOT AWARE OF THE VARIOUS LAWS AND RULES FRAMED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND INADVERTANTLY COMMITS DEFAULT. HE LANDS HIMSELF IN THE TRAP OF BREACH OF LAWS/RULES. HE IS THEN EXPLOITED BY THE GOVERNMENT MACHINERY OR IS PROSECUTED.


TO AVOID SUCH A SITUATION, THE GOVERNMENTS SHOULD PUBLISH GIST AND MAIN POINTS OF THE LAWS/RULES IMMEDIATELY AFTER ITS ENACTMENT , IN REGIONAL LANGUAGE NEW-PAPERS. THIS WILL ENLIGHTEN THE CITIZEN FOR COMPLIANCE.

THIS SUGGESTION IF IMPLEMENTED, WILL ENSURE BETTER COMPLIANCE BY CITIZEN OF VARIOUS LAWS/RULES AND AT THE SAME TIME EMPOWER THE CITIZEN WITH THE EXACT NATURE AND CONTENTS OF THE LAWS/RULES. THIS WILL SAVE HIM FROM HARASSMENT BY THE LAW ENFORCING DEPTS.

IN A DEMOCRACY THE CITIZEN CAN ATLEAST EXPECT TRANSPARENCY IN COMMUNICATING LAWS/RULES BEING MADE FOR COMPLIANCE BY THE CITIZEN.