Political and influential links in “rapes” of judicial system in India

Priyadarshini and Jessica are just names; these names have highlighted (again) the stinking Indian judicial system that India has. Ignoring the delay, better late than never, I want to congratulate High court for re-instilling the faith in the judicial system in India. However, this doesn’t mean they should be content and can rest on their laurels. Oct 17th will be written in the history of Justice in India in golden words laced with silver lining. Santosh Singh who raped and killed Priyadarshini in her VK flat in Delhi was convicted by high court. If court convicted Santosh Singh, we don’t need to give all the credit to police. He deserved it and he got it, yes we are thankful to Police and court to bring Mattoo’s case to a meaningful and right conclusion. But a bigger credit goes to Media and the Indian public, who for a change did not remain mum on such issues of national importance.
However, Jessica’s case was closed and reopened on account of media and public hue and cry. Jessica Lall a model in New Delhi was working as a celebrity barmaid at a socialite party when she was shot dead on April 29, 1999. Dozens of witnesses pointed to Siddharth Vashisht alias Manu Sharma, the son of Vinod Sharma, a powerful Congress politician in Haryana, as the murderer. Due to inadequacies in the investigation and an overall shoddy prosecution, Manu Sharma and a number of others were all acquitted by Judge S. L. Bhayana on February 21, 2006.
Referring to Mattoo’s case then should the Lall’s family presume that justice to their beloved family member will come around 2009?
In cases of both Jessica Lall and Priyadarshini Mattoo, the justice was twisted at the instance of high profile and politically connected accused.
The common link in both cases and which lead to delay of justice is the high profile connection.
In case of Jessica, Manu’s father is a senior politician and in September 2006, a TV program on Star News highlighted a Tehelka sting operation which showed how the witnesses were bribed and forced into retracting their initial statement. Vinod Sharma was named in the expose as paying millions of rupees to some of the witnesses. Facing pressure from the central Congress leaders (in view of forthcoming elections in the neighbouring state of Punjab), Vinod Sharma resigned from the Haryana cabinet on October 6, 2006.
However, now my question other than about Jessica lall’s murder, is where did Vinod Sharma get “million of rupees” to bribe. Don’t you think a CBI enquiry is required to solve this case (Case part 2: Jessica Lall’s murder case)??
Capital punishment is the correct judgment and the right end for people like santosh singh and manu sharma.
Their political links can keep them saved for some time from the hands of faith and trust but cannot save them for the rest of their lives.
Hope this makes their “influential” contacts also very clear that they cannot take the courts and the Indian public for a ride.