- British made laws to suppress natives
- India inherited them
- The leaders of national movement were mostly rich people who later became the ruling class of independent India
- The leaders failed to realise the egalitarian society envisaged in our constitution
- The 1991 liberalisation boosted India’s per capita income
- Now there was a need to exploit its natural resources for it to become a global power
- This lead to destruction of forests for mining
- The ancestors of the land i.e. adivasis were made to pay for India’s development
- Umpteen human right violation have been committed against adivasis in name of national security and development
- This has provided base for naxalism
- Our slow cumbersome judiciary has left many under trials languishing in jails for years together
- India has not ratified the UN convention against torture . it has no laws to prevent its citizens from being tortured
- But there are many laws providing immunity to security forces like
- AFSPA-1958
- UAPA-1967
- Chattisgarh special police act 2006
- Indian penal code provisions
WAY AHEAD
- Justice is theory while law is practice
- Law has failed to deliver justice
- There is a need for thorough review of our laws in order to make them deliver justice to problems of 21st century
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