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26/11 – Justice or Jest?

Some questions:
Why is the 26/11 trial not in the headlines since the past few days?
Why is Judge Tahilyani allowing Kasab to play games with the Indian judicial system?
Why should Kasab be given the ‘innocent-until-proven-guilty’ treatment when all the world has seen the evidence of his crime?
What ‘cooperation’ can India expect from Pakistan when our own judiciary is willing to be pushed around by undertrials and their unethical lawyers?
Why should a state have any but punitive dealings with a terrorist?
What is more important – to do justice and punish the criminal or to show the world how civil and fair India is?
Isn’t the tourism industry a better platform for showcasing India’s hospitality than a trial court?
Aren’t there any witnesses among the commandos and policemen who captured Kasab from the scene of crime and whose statement alone will be incriminating?
If the 26/11 crime has officially been termed a war, why are we running this farce of a civil trial?
Where are the people who attacked Anjali Waghmare’s house for accepting the assignment given her by the judge? Why aren’t they attacking his current lawyer, who’s using every lousy trick in the book to prolong this trial and make a joke of the judiciary?
Does the ‘judicial process’ necessarily require a total suspension of common sense and logic?
Is this how any other country have dealt with a deshdrohi, an enemy of the nation?
Is this how the US tried Saddam, or Iran a spying journalist?
Is this what the victims and survivors of 26/11 deserve?
Is this what the late Salaskar, Kamthe, and Karkare died for?
When, oh when, will India show some self-respect?

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