Trial is Error

It has been nearly 5 months now after the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai, the financial capital of India. Still there is no sign of justice or any stern action taken against the masterminds behind the attacks. India has already submitted dossier to Pakistan with all the necessary evidence claiming that the terrorists are of Pakistan origin.

Pakistan dogged by its own political problems, invasion of Taliban and terrorised by their own non-state actors has lost focus on punishing the accused of 26/11 attacks on India. It is just an eye-wash for India when Pakistan had been claiming that all the suspects have been arrested and investigations are going on. No one knows the actual truth. It won't long before this incident fades away from every one's memory. Can we expect any justice or concrete action taken against the criminals? India has been pressing this issue with the help of other nations like the United States, UK and other UN countries to dismantle terrorist organizations within Pakistan. Today it is India and tomorrow it may be any country that will become a victim of terrorism, if fast action is not taken by Pakistan. Considering the audacity of the Taliban Chief Mehsud who gave a statement in public that he is planning an attack on the United States which will be one of a kind and would cause maximum destruction, its high time Pakistan acted on these terrorist groups.

After much controversy on who will take up the case of the lone captured terrorist Ajmal Kasab, finally we have Abbas Kazmi who has taken up Kasab's case. The much awaited Trial is underway at the highly secured Arthur road Jail in Mumbai. Excuse me! What are we doing here? Are we trying a terrorist who is responsible for waging war against India and responsible for death of hundreds of innocent citizens in the court of law? A statement in one of the newspaper said "Kasab will be tried in the court of law and if found guilty, he will be punished". Does the law still think that Kasab is not guilty? Of course he is and the whole nation has seen it. We have enough evidence of Kasab and his accomplices for their inhuman acts.

I am not here to exploit loop holes in our legal system and I am aware that even hard core criminals get a chance to be tried in the court of law. In Kasab's case, trying him in the court is just adding on financial overhead for the Indian Government. Think of the amount of money that has gone in facilitating security for this captured terrorist. Police protection, bomb proof enclosure, security arrangements, ensuring his health condition etc. all for a person who has committed an unpardonable crime.

Most of us as Indians would like instant justice to be done to the innocent victims.Death in an encounter for Kasab like his accomplices from Pakistan went through. Human rights activists, please forgive me but I think Kasab deserves nothing less than death for the acts that he has committed.

As any other fellow Indian hoping that justice will prevail and Kasab and all others behind the 26/11 attacks get the deserved punishment we all have been looking for.