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Mukhtar Ansari acquittal shows it’s time India implemented Witness Protection Scheme

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If witnesses had the benefit of Witness Protection Scheme, the result may have been different – read the cry from the judge’s heart as he acquitted gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari and 6 others. It’s about time the scheme is implemented in letter and spirit to end the scourge of witnesses turning hostile.

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  1. It takes decades for a trail to come to fruition. Do you think witnesses, if they don’t forget or die of old age, can be protected for such long periods of time? India’s problems, be it crime, corruption, or even contract disputes, are largely the result of our corrupt, incompetent, and out of touch judiciary. Normal procedures that work elsewhere in the world will not work until our self appointing judiciary is reformed (or thrown out lock, stock and barrel is more like it).

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