Elected lawmakers taken to task on denial of justice
Source: Hueiyen News Service / Newmai News Network
Imphal, December 06 2013 :
Elected MPs and MLAs who are the law makers when involved in crimes disrupt policy making of its governance by hindering the rate of delivering justice to certain crimes as they themselves are involved in the act and feel a need to refrain from the situation, according to Dr.Chinglen Maisnam, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Manipur University.
Dr.Chinglen was speaking at a discussion session on "Denial of justice in Manipur" which was held at Lamyanba Sanglen, Imphal where his topic was based on "Denial of Justice with Special Reference to Crimes against Women in Manipur" .
Dr.Chinglen maintained that in India, out of the total elected MPs and MLAs, 1448 of them are found involved in crimes, in which 641 are women related crimes.
Hence, he said that since national leaders are themselves involved in crimes, they give full support to remain aloof from the scene and so justice is denied as always.
He told that among all the states with AFSPA in use, Manipur records the highest AFSPA related crimes compared to other states of the country.
A total of 8983 people have been killed since the imposition of AFSPA 1958.Between 2007 and 2013, 1639 number of people have been killed through AFSPA, 1958 in Manipur while only 81 people have lost lives in Tripura between this period.
Regarding the visit of the all political parties of Manipur delegation to New Delhi to discuss the Indo-Myanmar border fencing issue, he said only this issue should not be made top priority but the state leaders need to take to the Centre on cases concerning the common public.
Ignoring the cause of the people and giving favour for their issues only at times of election campaigns will not win the good will of the people, he added.
Dr.Dhanabir Laishram, social scientist and advocate L.Sevananda were also present at the discussion programme.
Dhanabir spoke on the topic "Civil Society Response to Denial of Justice by the State" and said that now is the right time to bring a change to the society through total revolution.
Dwelling on the present unsound law and order condition of the state will gain nothing apart from regrets, he said.
Time has come for the people of the state to unite under one roof and do away with all the factors leading to crime so that the people can have a peaceful life, he urged.
Sevananda spoke on "Roles and Duties of Police Officer in Registering a Criminal Case" .
The discussion programme was organized as a part of the ongoing International Fortnight Observation Protesting Violence Against Women in under the theme "From peace in the Home to peace in the World, let's challenge militarism and end violence against women" and is jointly organized by Women Action for Development (WAD), North East Dialogue Forum (NEDF), New Life Foundation (NLF), Resource Upliftment centre for Human Interest (RUCHI), Conflict Widows' Forum (CoWF), Peoples' Platform Secretariat (PPS) and Village Women Co ordinating Committee (VWCOC) .
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