Letter to BS: Tabrez Ansari case does no credit to criminal justice system

Attempts being made to help those who committed the murder of Tabrez Ansari in cold blood is subversion of justice. Like the Pehlu Khan case, the Ansari case now does no credit to India’s criminal justice system. Something must be terribly wrong if even open-and-shut cases go the way they do without a glimmer of hope for justice to the victims of hate crime. By dropping the murder charges and choosing to slap culpable homicide not amounting to murder, the Jharkhand police has shown utter lack of professionalism and naked partisanship.

The footage of the mob lynching a person clearly establishes