The justice gap

June 06, 2016 12:16 am | Updated October 18, 2016 12:37 pm IST

The Gulbarg verdict has once again highlighted the “justice gap” between crime and conviction prevalent in our criminal justice system (“The echoes at Gulbarg Society”, June 4). It stands to reason that planning, organising, mobilising and facilitating a massacre, as was done at Gulbarg, is as much a punishable crime as committing the actual massacre.

Still, the masterminds got off scot-free because of a lack of evidence. The prosecution, it appears, for whatever reason, did not gather and present “sufficient” evidence to secure their conviction.

The neglect of official responsibility to keep the peace was not just a breach of the constitutional obligation but also amounted to complicity in the crime. This was glossed over so as to attach no blame to those at the helm of the affairs at the time of the riots.

G. David Milton,Maruthancode, Tamil Nadu

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