Bulldozer justice is becoming contagious. Supreme Court is belatedly proposing to frame uniform guidelines to end this retributive approach by state governments. Let’s not stop at guidelines. We also need the will to implement. There should be no place for instant justice in civilised societies that follow rule of law.
SC proposing guidelines to end bulldozer justice not enough. Will to implement is must
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The Ajmer gangrape case is an apt example of how insensitive and hollow the Indian judiciary is. Such lethargic delivery of justice has resulted in people resorting to bulldozer justice.
In today’s India, quite unfortunately, bulldozer justice is the only antidote to rising crime rates.
Left to the Indian judiciary, every single case would take 32 years for justice to be delivered.
If the judiciary were to do it’s job efficiently and effectively, bulldozer justice would get erased on it’s own.