The wait of justice

It is amazing that the Indian Criminal Justise system can be so lenient on real criminals who have indirectly killed more then 20,000 people, and let them basically get away with murder and give them a slap on the wrist, that is what a 2 year sentence is, and it is a slap in the face for the victims of this very tragic episode in Indian history.
It is amazing that Falsely accused people as in the case of most 498a victims can get  a maximum of 7 years in prision,  and be harrassed with Jail immediatly for no crime that they have committed, just simply a false police report. This is B S Indian Justice the real victims pay the price while the perpetrators get away scot free.

The convicted in the Bhopal tragedy immediatly got bail and are free, in 498a cases victims have to hide and run around hopeing for Bail. Will the Judicial system take away the Passports of the 12 accused and convicted felons, as they do to 498a falsely accused? Will the ACP issue RED CORNER Alerts with INTERPOL for these 12 convicts, the court has proven them all Guilty after more then 25 years and the death of more then 20,000 innocent people and the victims are still indirectly feeling the effects of Bhopal tragedy, ACP immediatly trys even now to get INTERPOL to Issue RED CORNER Alerts to falsely accused 498a victims? This tells you that India is going to the Dogs, corruptions is rampent and spreading like wild fire and has to be extinguished.

Jun 7th 2010
DELHI

OVER a quarter of a century after a deadly methyl isocyanate gas leak from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal killed thousands of people, eight men (one of whom is now dead) have been convicted of causing “death by negligence”. The district court in Bhopal sentenced them to two years in prison and imposed fines. The accused were immediately released on Rs 25,000 ($530) personal bail bonds. They include Keshub Mahindra (current chairman of India's big tractor maker Mahindra & Mahindra), who was formerly chairman of Union Carbide’s Indian subsidiary.

The wheels of justice always turn slowly in India’s courts, which have a backlog of more than 20m cases. One judge recently suggested that it would take 320 years to clear it. But they were particularly ponderous in this case. After the accident India’s government concentrated on getting compensation from Union Carbide. A criminal case only began in 1987, when India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), charged 12 people with "culpable homicide not amounting to murder". Since then more than a dozen judges have heard the case, 180-odd prosecution witnesses have been examined and around 3,000 documents submitted to the judges. This first trial got nowhere and so in 1996 India’s Supreme Court reduced the charges and a new one began.

That increased the chances of getting a conviction but the consequences have enraged campaigners, who have expressed frustration about the levity of the sentences for an accident estimated to have caused between 10,000 and 25,000 deaths. They have also lamented the repeated failure to prosecute Warren Anderson, the (American) chairman of Union Carbide at the time of the incident.