Justice - Fast Food Way...?

“A mob of villagers from Daridag and Kodi localities in Ramgarh district attacked a gang suspected to be involved in a number of thefts and lynched three of them on Thursday.”
“10 people, suspected to be thieves, were lynched by a mob in Vaishali”
“Ranchi witnessed a gruesome incident of mob violence in Tupudana in which three people were done to death.”
The above mentioned lines have become a news, which does not sound like news anymore. The news which has traveled from the front page to the fifth and disappeared, from the breaking news to just another incident. What I would like to bring up to your active think machine is the fact that can you see some pattern? Is it just an unruly, anti-social mob which is craving for some publicity? Or is it a herald to a pattern in the Indian society? A little thing, very famous in past century in America, called Civil War.
Over the past few months we have seen several deaths of accused-turned-culprits who have not seen the inside of a court room but have received a verdict. Such incidents have not remained limited to the infamous states of U.P. and Bihar alone, but have spread across the entire nation. Cry as much as they may, the human rights activists dare not enter those territories. They seem to have guts only enough to file suits in the courts to save a rapist or a murderer, but no cases against a mob. Why?
I am willing to believe that due to the indefinite delay in the rendering of justice has probably driven the citizens to the edge where they are willing to even face the wrath of a police activity which involves no more than filing the case against suspected. And by the time the suspected are brought to justice, their souls would have long departed.
A man, so far unidentified, was lynched by an angry crowd in the central Mozambican city of Chimoio on Monday, as local people continued to take the law into their own hands and meted out summary justice to alleged thieves.
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/200802260757.html
It may sound rhyming to Indian situations, but only if you were to know that Mozambique is going through a phase which is far different from the well framed, socialist government, it should sound a little weird to you.
“Irate villagers in Narauni village of Kakori on the outskirts of the state capital took law into their own hands and lynched a man for allegedly stealing a submersible pump from a farmer's house. The incident took place on Sunday.”
Source: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2008/February/subcontinent_February836.xml&section=subcontinent&col=
This is an excerpt from web edition of Khaleej Times, UAE based news paper.
The intention of preparing the above background is only to stress upon the fact that it is not just the patience level of the Indians that is tumbling down, but also a failure of government machinery. The verdicts given by the mass or public has either not been proven yet or have been proven wrong. So even if the public thinks that they have the right to render justice, we stand at the same question once again – how justified is the justice?
The courts have always been submerged under the cases and have not been able to give hope to a mass chunk of public. The faith of millions is no longer on the judicial system which gets bought and sold inside and outside courtrooms and police stations. So far the Indians had got inured to this treatment meted out to them. But this new ugly face of the public should ring the bells in the judicial arena as well as the executive machinery. The stick has somehow reached into the hands of the uneducated and the illiterate. The literate are too busy to care. Are we?
It is time everybody understands that “Justice delayed… would not longer be justice denied” even if it is unjust.