Letters: Confusing signals

This refers to the column, "Disproportionate action?" (July 21). I don't know whether to laugh or feel sorry when a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is sought - with the expectation of an impartial, quick outcome - when one of its former chiefs himself is being investigated. The same agency that chargesheeted police officers and politicians in fake encounter cases has not been following up with prosecution in the usual manner, allowing instead the judiciary to take a decision. Not only the CBI, but other enforcement agencies also, seem to toe the party in power, be it in the states or at the Centre. The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act has been applied to activist Teesta Setalvad and some non-governmental organisations. What about the political parties, religious entities and education institutions that get such contributions?

An ordinary citizen doesn't always consider a policeman to be a protector. Getting an FIR filed itself is a difficult job. Bail pleas and prosecution of a certain category of accused are decided quickly even as thousands of undertrials languish in jails. While we cry hoarse over the trial of 26/11 attack mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, supposed to be in Pakistan, we release Hurriyat leader Masarat Alam Bhat. Sometimes even the judiciary appears to turn a deaf ear to such developments.

Dilip Somani Jamnagar

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