Wednesday 23 December 2015

Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill, 2015

                                With the Rajya Sabha passing the new Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill 2015 , our parliamentarians have demonstrated a paradigm shift in there approach towards tackling crime in a pragmatic manner where the recognition of the rights of the victims is considered equally important as the rights of juveniles. The amended Juvenile Justice Bill became a necessity as 1.2% of most heinous crimes in country are committed by juveniles and over 50% are sex offences.
                                 With passage of new Bill Juvenile Board now has discretion to try juveniles committing horrendous crimes as adults between age group of 16 to 18. If the nature of the crime is critical, why stop at age 18 and not 16?  The Bill permits juveniles above the age of 16 years to be tried as adults for heinous offences if the Juvenile Justice Board finds the juvenile fit to be tried as an adult based on a preliminary assessment with regard to his mental and physical capacity to commit such an offence, ability to understand the consequences of the offence and the circumstances in which he allegedly committed the offence.
                               There's alarming rise in criminal offences involving juveniles, thus Juvenile Justice Bill was the need of the hour and it might act as deterrent discouraging juveniles while helping law enforcement agencies too.Equally important is the classification of crimes by juveniles, the young age and pitiable crime shouldn't come under the purview of the law and should be dealt leniently considering young age and scope for improvement (rehabilitation) with societal support.

                              Nation also needs to seriously debate why their is increase in number of juvenile crimes. Isn't there a wrought in society that's growing unabated and criminal offences by adolescents a true and worrying reflection to society ? Serious debate involving child psychologists & sociologists is necessary to get to the bottom and stem the rot through corrective measures .The ultimate goal of society should be the care, protection, maintenance, welfare, training, education and rehabilitation of neglected or delinquent children along with safety and wellbeing of vulnerable.

Tuesday 15 December 2015

Intolerance Reloaded

                         
                                      As Ratan Tata rightly mentioned intolerance in India is confined only to tv studios. The intolerance debate raging in tv studios augmented by returning awardees whose dubious credentials aren't debated by the same paid media is gradually but surely brushed under the carpet ever since Bihar election results were declared . The unabated chest-beating by pseudo seculars and atmosphere of insecurity created by dolts reaches its zenith during electioneering and is slowly ebbing.
                               The reoccurrence of manufactured protests during consecutive state elections is a well thought out prudent strategy baffling BJP think tank. During Delhi elections alleged atrocities on Christians and desecration of sacred places in few cities,rape of an elderly nun in West Bengal were cited as reasons showing growth in intolerance towards minorities. Interestingly all Church vandalism and rape occurred in non-BJP ruled states yet Modi govt was demonized. Later after investigations, Bangladeshi immigrants were caught by investigative agencies in elderly rape of Nun thus debunking theories by imminent "secular" intellectuals who pounced on Hindu organizations for vitiating the otherwise peaceful environment. Similarly,a vitiated insecure environment of intolerance towards minorities was created during Bihar elections with tacit understanding of like minded groups who organized a well orchestrated campaign to chastise and malign Modi govt. The campaign was successful in creating fear psychosis among section of population thus polarizing electorate during state elections besides smudging Modi govt. 
                                 The debate over mudslinging communities and demonizing majority isn't new in India. It is a well conceived strategy to browbeat majority and cry victim hood when cornered. It is acceptable in India to lampoon Hinduism in the name of free speech or safeguarding secularism. There's a big,boisterous,noisy lobby who come in strength to defend such ignominious acts. This hate filled lobby that denounces everything remotely Hindu, spewing venom isn't new for them but there ignominious acts have touched higher peaks now where mocking and trivializing country's secular democratic process is justified by dolts with media hobnobbing in lopsided portrayal of country. In there mindless hatred towards Modi and in pursuit to besmirch him,these leftists aren't perturbed about tarnishing image of country. Defaming India by so called liberal dolts on world stage is an unprecedented new phenomenon .
                                 These pseudo secular torch bearers of pluralism usually find fault only with majority community and lose there voices while confronting muslim community in particular. The double standards espoused by left liberals in complicity with media only created the wedge among masses. The mass exodus of Hindus from Kashmir, Godhra riots, Sikh massacre didn't move there conscious but unfortunate ignominious stray acts of violence in non-BJP ruled state gave them godsend opportunity to defame Modi govt. The recent attack on Lokmat newspaper in Maharashtra by Muslim mob,or declaring bounty on heads of people by fundamentalists didn't come under the ambit of intolerance or attack on free speech for pseudo seculars. The dubious standard practiced by these dolts has not only bolstered miniscule islamic fundamentalists portraying whole community poorly but created a wedge in society with majority now openly questioning such lopsided disgraceful attitude of intellectuals and media .
                                 For over 68 years India was ruled by socialist leaning Congress government and it propagated religious chauvinism as purely Hindu phenomenon totally oblivious or blindsided of violence instigated by other community. For many,Muslims were always victims of violence, never its perpetrators. The left leaning intellectuals who are genetically anti-Hindu treat with contempt at everything indigenous ,such is the viciousness of dolts they rile against yoga, called Swatch Bharat a nautnki and ranted against the simple, innocuous idea of Selfie With Daughter. These vicious bigots who didn't spare Hindu Gods and Goddess, supported nude depictions by M.F Hussain paintings as artistic freedom, had there tongues bitten when Satanic Verses were banned, are now screaming of rising intolerance when ordinary people question them. Truth about Intolerance hysteria was aimed at instigating people to disown BJP and dwarf Modi govt stupendous achievements .
                                The entire campaign against alleged intolerance was a conspiracy to tarnish image of country. Truth is the central government is lead by a strong leader,dubious NGO's were banned ,corruption is reduced ,self-proclaimed intellectuals are sidelined, so,traitors are feeling the heat and venting there anger through manufactured protests.India is home to more religions than entire rest of the world put together so intolerance debate is a joke, a propaganda courtesy left liberals sidelined during 18 months of BJP rule. Raging Intolerance debate is a political agenda with vested groups for ulterior motives. 
                              Modi govt was scrutinized from day one on governance and after hairsplitting for 18 months when nothing can be pinpointed by opposition then intolerance debate came to there rescue. An ingenious idea with no reference or benchmark to compare with perception was created of insecurity among minorities to destabilize incumbent govt. It's an open secret Modi always have had tough times negotiating with some powerful media houses who are unreasonable and corrupt. Modi govt have always lost the perception battle with communal badge firmly outshined achievements of his govt. People and celebrities from different fields also get influenced with unstoppable bombardment of lopsided negative publicity of govt and the latest to join diatribe against Modi govt is Aamir Khan. 
                                   Actors who lead a cherished ,privileged life aren't intellectuals merely performers and jumping out to create hysteria without valid reasons and proofs to corroborate isn't advisable for them as many consider them icons. In India media is more becoming a nuisance with no or little control over its content, with battle of TRP's clearly self regulation is confined to dustbin.It's sad that the shameless paid Indian media didn't even give Chennai Floods even half the importance it gave to fake Intolerance Debate .We live in times, where everything we read and hear should be taken with a pinch of salt. There was a time when journalist laid their lives to raise issue of the nation, today they lay others life to make an issue. 
                          As the P.M rightly stated that India as the land of Gandhi and Buddha there's no place for intolerance in our country and every act of violence will be dealt with firmly according to law .