05-06-2015, 10:57 AM
Short intro:
Salman Khan is a prominent actor in the Hindi film Industry.
In 2002, he is was involved in a hit-and-run case, where a pedestrian dweller was run over by the car allegedly driven by him, in a drunken state in the middle of the night.
The verdict delivered today by a sessions court, after 13 long years declared him guilty and sentenced him to 5 years in prison.
This being a sessions court verdict there'll be a High court appeal to get him out first and perhaps a Supreme Court case depending on how things progress.
That is the short intro. Detailed stories can be found online.
Here is one from msn .
It is another case of justice delayed. I gather in this case they'd been debating for a good many years on what crime to book him for and he too was trying to bluff his way out.
Well, what am wondering about is the verdict.
I wish the legal system, media etc would start thinking different.
The incident apparently seems to have brought out the goodness in the man who is known to have been very rash in his younger days. Or it could be that age along with it has mellowed him. In the past few years, he has involved himself in some 'human welfare' measures. (Being Human)
My feeling is this. Instead of sending him to prison, at this stage, why not 'punish' him by making him use his abundant wealth, fame etc in a manner that could be considered as compensation for the crime.
Sending to jail certainly sends a message to others that drunken driving is inadmissible, but from what I see that is not going to stop and cops and legal system are terribly slow and ineffective.
I personally would have been happy to seem him confess to the crime and for the court to deliver a verdict which wasn't just imprisonment. Law and lawyers make this difficult, but after 13 years I felt the court could have had a chat with him making him confess and set a new trend. At least that is how I felt in this particular case. It is probably idealistic, but I just felt it was an opportunity lost for both the man and the legal system.
Not sure if that was cogent, but I don't feel like saving it as a draft now. So here goes...
Feel free to share your views/news on this issue.
Salman Khan is a prominent actor in the Hindi film Industry.
In 2002, he is was involved in a hit-and-run case, where a pedestrian dweller was run over by the car allegedly driven by him, in a drunken state in the middle of the night.
The verdict delivered today by a sessions court, after 13 long years declared him guilty and sentenced him to 5 years in prison.
This being a sessions court verdict there'll be a High court appeal to get him out first and perhaps a Supreme Court case depending on how things progress.
That is the short intro. Detailed stories can be found online.
Here is one from msn .
It is another case of justice delayed. I gather in this case they'd been debating for a good many years on what crime to book him for and he too was trying to bluff his way out.
Well, what am wondering about is the verdict.
I wish the legal system, media etc would start thinking different.
The incident apparently seems to have brought out the goodness in the man who is known to have been very rash in his younger days. Or it could be that age along with it has mellowed him. In the past few years, he has involved himself in some 'human welfare' measures. (Being Human)
My feeling is this. Instead of sending him to prison, at this stage, why not 'punish' him by making him use his abundant wealth, fame etc in a manner that could be considered as compensation for the crime.
Sending to jail certainly sends a message to others that drunken driving is inadmissible, but from what I see that is not going to stop and cops and legal system are terribly slow and ineffective.
I personally would have been happy to seem him confess to the crime and for the court to deliver a verdict which wasn't just imprisonment. Law and lawyers make this difficult, but after 13 years I felt the court could have had a chat with him making him confess and set a new trend. At least that is how I felt in this particular case. It is probably idealistic, but I just felt it was an opportunity lost for both the man and the legal system.
Not sure if that was cogent, but I don't feel like saving it as a draft now. So here goes...
Feel free to share your views/news on this issue.
(This post was last modified: 05-06-2015, 10:58 AM by radiobox.)
Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long -- Ogden Nash