“One man’s tragedy is another’s man entertainment” – Mahesh Bhatt
It was disgusting to see Ram Gopal Verma proving this point by making a movie on the Neeraj Grover murder case…!! He was also all eager to sign Maria Susairaj for a movie. Abhay Deol was equally lame when he said, “There’s room for everyone in the movie industry”!!! There were rumours afloat that Big Boss producers were after her too. It has become a desperate need to sensationalize anything and everything in today’s world.
For those who are clueless…time travel to 2008….. the crime looked exactly like a scene from Dexter only here the victim was an innocent man (Neeraj Grover) and Jerome was no Dexter either. After Maria (Jerome’s fiancée) chopped Neeraj’s dead body to 300 pieces or (4 -5 pieces as her lawyer claims), the court sets her free on 2nd July 2011 because all she did was ‘destroy evidence’ and Jerome was convicted for ‘culpable homicide not amounting to murder’. Since allegedly Jerome was ‘provoked’ to murder Neeraj but had no intentions to actually murder him, it was culpable homicide and not murder. Poor Maria on the other hand only helped in chopping the body and burning it so it is ‘destruction of evidence’.
Such crazy antics of Indian Penal Code makes me think that one fine day I might get into a fight and get murdered with a kitchen knife. Then my murderer hires a smart lawyer, they prove in court that there was no motive, the murder was impromptu and my murderer walks free inspite of chopping my dead body into 300 pieces in cold blood..!!
I bet the judge must be a smart bloke but why not use the brain instead of getting into the technicalities. Even to a layman it’s evident that it was a conspiracy but the IPC has provisions to ensure that murderers roam around to commit more crimes, Hasan Ali is free to transfer more money to Swiss bank accounts etc etc.
The most heart breaking part in all of it is the state of the parents who were hoping to get a closure after 3 years of wait. But all they got was disappointment. Stories of people and their eternal struggle with the Indian judicial system are abundant and the parents might be dragged into that vicious cycle. With their old age justice delayed is justice denied. The grief will be only theirs because eventually the people, media everyone will move on.
A weak democracy (Yes Mr. Manmohan…you are a lame-duck PM..I wonder what made you think otherwise) and a flawed judicial system are definite signs of a crippling, crumbling nation and I don’t think any Rahul (Vinci) Gandhi can ever fix it. The problems are deep rooted and the question that arises in all of it is that are we really safe..??
Is it supposed to be philosophy? I disagree with most of the points. Its simply bad implementation of things (almost at every level and not just in this case). So its not just one judge or Mr. Manmohan Singh. They all work in accordance to constitution and laws set. Constitution and law set to make life smooth for citizen. They were sane people who came up with all the ideas, I guess.
You can have a knife, cut an apple or a (hu)man, that's implementation.
IPC is really strange sometimes.Possession of illegal arms can lead to 5-10 yrs of RI.(sanjay dutt)
while homicide without intent i.e. accident gets atmost 4 yrs of jail.But in the first case no one is hurt but in second case someone actually dies it is the "intent" that matters.
but its wrong to blame only Manmohan or Rahul, in that case wat did vajaypee do wen he was in power.He is supposed to be India's best PM after Lal bahadur Shastri.
About film makers what u say is true if u consider only mrality grounds,but Film making is dere business.So to make quick money they sometimes take shortcuts .This is one such incident