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ir India-one of the first Ac u s t o m e r s f o r t h e Dreamliner-ordered a total of 27 planes in January 2006. The carrier plans to take the delivery of six more jets by the end of December and the remaining 15 through 2016. "We will sale and leaseback the remaining Dreamliner aircraft as and when we receive them, the Air India spokesman said. The spokesman said Air India will be able to get a favorable price from the leasing companies as the cost of the Dreamliner has increased from the time the airline placed its order. According to a tender document posted on the airline's website, Air India will lease back the initial seven Dreamliner planes "under an operating lease for a period of 12 years with an option to extend."

In a Request for Proposal (RFP), dated Jan. 23, the airline has invited quotations from lessors on or before Feb. 5. According to the RFP, the airline “would sell the aircraft to the lessor and immedi-ately lease them back under an operating lease for a period of 12 years, with an option to extend.”

This short period of 15 days to float a tender worth tens of thou-sands of crores, reeks of one of the biggest scams in the history of India according to an inside source with knowledge of Air India

operations. According to the source, buyers for the planes and the selling price and leasing rates had already been decided years ago. This sudden notice for sale of these planes in a short span of just two weeks has been done because they are fully aware that it will take months to correctly calculate the profits and prepare a tender for such a huge deal involving more than a billion dollars. If it took Air India years to negotiate the price of these planes, then how can any plane buyer decide on the price to buy these planes from Air India in just two weeks? The way this has been set up is that there will be only one real bidder and a few other bogus tenders, all calculated and prepared well in advance as reliably learnt. Of course there will be other real bidders too but since they did not have time to calculate the intricacies of such a deal, they would quote huge amounts, much higher than the intended buyer, the source said.

The Indian carrier has received six 787s and is expected to take delivery of one more soon. The delivery of the seventh aircraft is, however, unlikely before U.S. regulators and air safety investi-gators complete a probe into causes of recent incidents of

battery fire and fuel leaks on the new jets. This would seem to be the excuse Air India was waiting for, No sooner than this probe was announced, Air India suddenly invited bids for the sale and leaseback of all seven aircraft.

According to a company spo-kesman the sale and leaseback program is part of a plan by the loss-making state-run carrier to raise funds and move toward profitability. Airlines sometimes sell planes at a premium to their buying price to leasing companies to raise cash and then lease them back on monthly rentals. The option is considered an effective method to free up capital. However, Air India is not a private entity but one which is owned by the Government of India and all losses are paid for by the tax payer. Selling these planes and leasing them back is tantamount to selling Government property and leasing them back at a loss. It just involves the addition of a “Dalal” who will eat a chunk of the money that the Government of India should be getting out of running Air India. If Air India is short on cash, all that it needs to do is to mortgage the planes to a Government run Bank like State Bank and free up the capital. If Kingfisher can get money from State Bank and even

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WHY DOES AIR INDIA NEED A “DALAL” FOR ITS 787 DREAMLINERS ?

WILL THIS BE THE BIGGEST SCAM IN INDIA ?M. Thomas, USA

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needless controversy has Abeen generated with regard to a rape case alleged to have happened way back, 17 years ago, at Suryanelli in Kerala. The alleged victim was 16years old then and the rape was alleged to have been committed by 42 men for 40 days - very strange! Election time is nearing and politicians are running for cover not to be cowed down, allegations from various quarters about crimes, corruption, rape and other atrocities are surfacing with impunity. Settled cases are being made issues and reopened, with not an iota of fresh evidence produced. It is in this context the Suryanelli episode has to be seen. If there is no finality in litigation even when the apex court puts its final seal then we shall be opening a can of worms forever and ever. Kerala is known for its rape episodes with a very low conviction rate and the acquittals prove that most of the allegations were made to settle scores or to take revenge. Rape is also used as an effective tool to blackmail anyone at will especially those in power & politics. The damage and loss of reputations is uncompensatable, irrespective of the personality.

With the Delhi gang rape case hitting the headlines, old allegations of rape cases and pending cases have got a new impetus. This is not to defend those who have committed, aided or abetted such crimes but the free and fair judicial trial demands incontrovertible evidence to substantiate a criminal charge. Questioning the finality of a Supreme Court verdict amounts to contempt of court and if strict actions are not initiated we will be setting the bad precedence of unending litigation and uncertainty of the finality.

It is difficult to believe that Mr. P. J. Kurian has been absolved by the Supreme Court without taking into account any of the evidence with regards to the alleged crime. With due regard to our judicial process and in the fairness of things it is submitted that the sanctity of the Hon. Supreme Court must be maintained and nothing should be done or stated to lower its prestige and authority by anyone under any pretext. If crucification on the basis of hearsay and mere allegations become the norm it has dangerous implications in a democracy.

Verdict or Vendetta ?

Vashi, the planned satellite township with wide roads and infrastructure has become an example of developmental anar-chy and unplanned changes. Nothing else can explain the

recent official encroachment over the service roads between Vashi Sec.17 and Turbhe and the construction of small shopping Arcade in front of State SSC Board by the NMMC, a town planning body by converting the nullah that carries storm water to the creek. Parking problems is the

direct result of bad planning and to add insult to injury the NMMC introduced pay and park system, taxing the vehicle owners who have already paid the road tax. Does the road tax include the right to use the

parking slot? Is not the municipality duty bound to provide parking provisions at various locations? It seems that those in power in this country are intoxicated with power and lost the sense of proportion in decision making. When you add a 2000 vehicles every day on the road and collect various charges and

N.M.M.C. ON WRONG FOOT ???Staff Reporter fees, is not the authority

mandated to provide space for the vehicles? But when the vehicles are on bumper to bumper drive how can one expect the parking space to materialize. But cer-tainly the available space such as service roads could be put to maximum use but it is strange that even such facilities are being grabbed and converted for shopping Arcade supposed to be meant for small business people which would surely add to the congestion and public inconveni-ence. The moot question is what is the need for another shopping Arcade when people are terribly looking for a parking lot? Or is it to favour the followers of a par-ticular ruling party? We the people have no alternative but to endure these kinds of idiosyncra-sies, be it from hawkers, un-authorized vendors, garages on roads or the authorities on our head.

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February 16-28, 2013

The recent attempts by finance Minister Chidambaram to curb the import and sale of gold in the country is not just ridiculous but also harmful to the public. The finance ministry's plan to tweak tax exemption rules in the upcoming budget to make investments in financial products look more attractive than gold is nothing short of shameful. There is clearly a need to examine and rectify the situation so that household savings come back to the organized financial market and are used in the creation of the nation's modern infrastructure and industrial base," the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council had said in a report of the review of the economy in 2011-12.

This seems to be faulty logic as the finance ministry wants the public to trust the financial markets that are controlled by a bunch of crooks that bend and break every rule and regulation in the book to deceive the public. If the logic is correct, then why does the country have 500 tonnes of gold ???

If gold is harmful to the economy, then India had better sell all her reserves of gold. But according to Chidambaram, gold is harmful only when it is in the hands of the citizens of the country. He would rather said that the citizens of the country store their wealth in currency, stocks and other assets which the corporate and governments can manipulate and depreciate the value, resulting in losses for

people who invest in these instruments. If people save in gold they won't lose their wealth due to currency depreciation and this is what Chidambaram does not like.

Any economist worth his salt will tell you that highly inflated property prices is the number one cause of economic downfall and not gold. This is because when property prices are extremely high compared to other countries, the cost of doing business goes up and this drives away businesses from the country and subsequently lesser taxes. But it seems Chidambaram is more interested in restricting the access of citizens towards gold with the probable malafide intention of benefitting the treasury at the expense of the public by preventing the people from investing in gold, that will hedge them from the devaluation or depreciation of the Indian rupee.

The plus point is that it will hurt the business of crooked jewelers but the minus point is that they in turn will find novel ways and means to adulterate even more gold on a larger scale and fool customers. It is not enough the Indian jewelers are considered to be the world's topmost gold adulterators. Squeeze them hard and these ba****ns will discover some really good alloy that will fool the best of spectrophoto-meters and other testing and hallmarking equipment. The FM

had better understand that the Indian people are not fools and they can see through all such anti-people policies.

Human Rights in Civil Law - Recommendation uality Legal Aid assist-Qance to needy persons

needs to be improved. A legal, aid scheme needs to be organized in a manner to encourage the involve-ment of experienced lawyers in the work.

Traditional Concepts and relu-ctance to deviate from outdated precedents has caused consider-able difficulties and hardship, especially in enforcement / execu-tion proceedings after a decree is entered in civil litigation, while the judgments are under appeal. This is so in rent and ejectment cases. After 14 days of entering judg-ment, a successful party can move for writ of execution pending appeal and eject the tenant.

Speedy remedial legal proce-dures are necessary where fraudu-lent methods have resorted to by unscrupulous litigants to eject people from their houses and land. Some litigants only become aware of the existence of such litigation when they are ejected or dispossessed.

In family matters like divorce proceedings, custody applications etc, in order to ensure the best

interests of the child, there should be representation of such children in courts. Family Courts need to be introduced with trained family Counselors. In this respect too the Indian experience may provide a useful guide.

Education programmes for the people at grass-roots level need to be established to give them an idea of their rights and obligation. No fault liability funds need to be established to help the victims of running down cases.

The Consumer Courts of India are one of the examples that may

be followed in the Context of rapid commercialization.

These Courts are also an example of the use of simplified procedures in order to assist the litigants and protect them from the harassment of litigation under the normal procedures. However, by a series of judgments the focus of this legislation was shifted in favor of the employer.

The unreasonable delay in disposal of cases is itself a violation of human rights. There are no effective remedies for people evacuated from their land for the purpose of development projects. In such situations there is little that could be done through the existing legal procedures.

The people who have occupied crown lands for a long period of time should not be prosecuted for trespass. Often, such prosecutions have been undertaken for the purpose of ejecting people from the lands they have cultivated and developed. Such evaluation result in deprivation of livelihood and therefore, is a violation of the right to life.

CHIDAMBARAM'S HATRED OF GOLD !!!

Command and Control in Democracyhose of us who have never Tobeyed anyone have no

right to command anybody. Obedience is the best policy, it is said, but the fact is that we all would like to command and expect others to obey and submit. The responsible father wants his son to obey him, the husband expects his wife to submit to him totally, the management wants its employees to obey without a murmur and, the leaders want the followers to obey in practice and the rich wants the poor to obey and so on. This has become

egalitarian society in the spirit of the directive principles of state policy, we have evaded it fully knowing well that they are not enforceable by any court of law and thus became victims of fissiparous tendencies, caste politics and religious bigotry.

We all harp on the freedom of speech only to abuse the noble concept. Any privilege however sacred, if abused or misused becomes stale over a period of time. We have been abusing the right of freedom of speech and expression with impunity. Many are not aware that this fundamental right en-shrined in the constitution under Part-III article 19 is not an absolute and unfettered right. The founding fathers of our constitution have clearly foreseen the dangers of unfettered freedom and therefore made provisions under article 19(1)(a) for reasonable restrictions. What amounts to reasonableness has been made clear by Hon. Supreme Court on many occasions. The freedom of any kind cannot be at the cost of the freedom of others since every one has the right to live and to let live. Public memory is short and we have almost forgotten the days of emergency.

The Phenomenon of half education in our country has been playing havoc with our brand of democracy. Even those who claim to be educated are victims of this dangerous phobia called half education and it is this half educated men and women who are behind the abuse and misuse of the freedom of speech and expression. They are literate but not educated to speak without hurting the sentiments of others and without provoking. Education has not served its invented purpose but remained a tool to hunt a job. They are also not

the national objection which has a debilitating effect which cascades and permeates in to the psyche of a whole generation of Indians. Imagine the predicament of an army or a ship in which the orders are questioned and not obeyed! Is it not a paradox? Human Trait is different from the sheepish and is not programmed to follow someone blindly. Today we have more number of people in commanding positions, some appointed, some elected, some nominated, some rewarded and some coronated. The rage for power and command at any cost! There was a time when only a few distinguished leaders occupied the stage or the rostrum with a large audience to listen. But today we find the stage is set and full of leaders vying with each other for a space before the camera flash or video light. Clearly a paradigm shift has taken place in public perception of the leaders. How come anyone become a leader with no followers? Follow-ers are not there simply because they do not want to listen. They do not want to listen because there is nothing new to listen and then they know that the listening is only for the sake of listening, full of strife and unkept promises. This Dangerous trend is eating into the vitals of our nation. Instead of striving for the creation of an

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QUOTABLE QUOTESWhen anger or ill thoughts arise from a person who is dear to

you, then that affects you as well. For example, a person sitting inside your house and causing damage will affect you more than someone causing damage outside on the street.

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February 16-28, 2013

Missing CIDCO officer's body recovered, with 30 stab woundsCops say Mhatre was stabbed

more than 30 times. His car along with his wig and sandals were recovered on February 9 from Bambaipada. Sub-Inspector MB Raut from Panvel police station said, “Mhatre's body was found at 4pm on Sunday near the T-junction at Manghed Village.”

Asked whether the family of the victim had received any ransom calls, Senior Police Inspector Ramesh Ghadavle said, “We had registered a case of kidnapping earlier, but his wife and daughter didn't mention any such calls.”

Some ornaments were missing from the victim's body. Ghadavle added, “Chains and one ring are unaccounted for, though another ring was intact.” According to the police officials, the family became anxious when the Jasai Nagar resident didn't return home at the usual time on Friday. A search ensued and the relatives found his car in the wee hours of Saturday, after which they informed the nearby police station. The unidentified accused has been booked under IPC sections 302 (murder), 394 (voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence), 363 (kidnapping) and 365 (kidnapping or abducting with intent to secretly and wrongfully confine person). Ghadavle added, “Mhatre's body was sent to Panvel Rural Hospital for postmortem. The report will tell us when exactly the murder took place.”

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convert it to worthless shares, then why can't Air India? Why does she need a private party to buy her planes? This reeks of a massive

scam where the buyer will benefit in millions of dollars at the expense of the taxpayer.

Air India said it will maintain

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Cops detain Sandhya's son, say murder was committed by insiderThe search for Sandhya Singh's killer has been narrowed down to

an insider after cops learnt that the sister of yesteryear actors Vijeta and Sulakshana Pandit was worried about jewellery going missing from her house piece by piece. Police have also learnt that Sandhya, 50, had stepped out to deposit the rest of her jewels in a bank locker when she went missing in December last year.

The Navi Mumbai Crime Branch, which took over the investigations after Sandhya's family identified bones, clothes and a chain recovered from a marsh near Seawoods Estate in Nerul as hers, has now identified Sandhya's son, Raghuveer, 23, who was battling alcohol and drug addiction, as a suspect.

Vijeta Pandit was at Nerul police station till late Saturday to record her statement. She told Mumbai Mirror over the phone that her sister had told her about the missing jewellery, and also about her son's wayward behaviour. “She was very worried about the company Raghuveer kept. She had told me that Raghuveer used to harass her for money,” she said. Raghuveer was detained two days ago, and all of his friends have been questioned in the past week or so. Sandhya's brother Lalit Pandit, one half of the music composer duo Jatin-Lalit, said, “Raghuvir is at the police station. He was called for questioning on Friday morning. We have told police that even if a suspect belongs to our family, he/she should be interrogated.”

Sandhya lived with Raghuveer at their sprawling Seawoods apartment. The family owns another apartment in a neighbouring building, but the flat is unoccupied. It has also emerged that Sandhya had filed a police complaint against Raghuveer around five months ago, alleging he had beaten her up. At that time, he was let off with a warning after Sandhya's husband Jaiprakash Singh, a customs officer, assured that he will take his son to Indore, where he is posted.

Investigations have revealed that on December 13, the day Sandhya went missing, Raghuveer had offered to drop her to the bank. She, however, went in a friend's car. The cops are now analysing mobile phone dump data - all activity recorded by mobile phone towers in a particular area - to check if any of Raghuveer's friends were in the vicinity when Sandhya had gone to the bank.

While Mumbai Mirror in a previous report had revealed that Sandhya's masseuse was arrested for stealing jewellery from the house, her sister has told the cops that what was recovered from the masseuse was only a small part of what was stolen.

Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner A K Sharma said, “The victim's son is one of the suspects and that's all we can say at the moment as we wait for the DNA reports.”

Cheppad Somanathan, poet and writer, suddenly died at his home in Cheppad, Alappuzha district, on the 2nd of Feb, 2013. It was only the previous day that he had called me, around noon while I was at a hospital in Kakkanad, and we talked for some time. He was his usual self, and there was nothing to suggest, even remotely, that this would be our last con-versation.

I had promised to visit him during this trip to Kerala and was planning to make it after a week. But that was not to be! Man proposes God disposes.

I knew Somanathan for the last seven years. I saw him for the first time when out of curiosity I went to attend a “Sahitya Vedi session at Matunga's Keraleeya Samajam. He was the Convenor of the Sahitya Vedi. He welcomed me and introduced me to the gathering. That was the beginning of an enduring relationship. It was because of him that I regularly attended the meetings of the Sahitya Vedi, which was a window to Mumbai's literary circles.

Cheppad Somanathan was a man of talent. He was essentially a poet, but also excelled in writing

prose. He wrote a weekly column for a few years in the 'Kalakaum-udi', the first Malayalam daily newspaper that started publication from Mumbai. Cheppad was the convenor of Sahitya Vedi for many years and worked sincerely for organising the literary sessions.

He took special interest in encouraging youngsters in their literary pursuits. Cheppad was equally interested in the arts and theatre, and as Secretary of the Arts Section of the Keraleeya Samajam, directed dramas for their the anniversary functions. Because of his active involvement in the Sahitya Vedi and the Bombay Keraleeya Samajam, Somanathan had a large circle of friends. He knew practically everyone who mattered in the Malayalam literary field in Mumbai and also, quite a number of well known writers in Kerala, some of whom were invited to address the Sahitya Vedi from time to time. Cheppad wrote a number of essays, but the one he wrote while leaving Mumbai for good, on retirement, titled “Thanks, my city” (Nagarame, Nandi) was an out-standing one.

Cheppad Somanathan was a Scientific Officer with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre at Trom-bay, near Mumbai. After thirty years of service, he retired a couple of years ago, on superannuation and went back to his roots in Cheppad.

Cheppad lived in the BARC colony called Anushakti Nagar and I too happened to live there for the last four years. During this period, we met quite often and naturally we

came to know each other very intimately. He gave me all his poems to read and wanted to know my opinion. They were published in book form under titles, “Kalam Sakshi”, “Kurumozhi Cheppu”, “Chuvanna Swapnangale, Vida” etc.

I read all the poems carefully and some of them which I liked, many times over. Several showed the hallmark of a genius. I wrote a critical appreciation of his poems in a personal essay that was published in a special edition of “Malayalabhumi” from Mumbai. It has also appeared in “The Complete Works of Cheppad Somanathan”, which he published after retirement.

Cheppad Somanathan was unmarried and lived a spartan life. A lover of books, his flat in “Lalit”, BARC Colony was full of books and magazines.

Cheppad had a pet project, changing the name of Kerala to Keralam. In order to get it officially changed, he did a lot of work. He wrote to all concerned and also to newspapers, about the necessity for rectifying the error.

Though troubled by failing eye sight and other physical ailments, Cheppad put up a brave front and was always jovial. Mild mannered and soft spoken, he was a very amiable person.

Somanathan used to read my articles in English and promptly gave his opinion. This was a source of real encouragement to me. His passing away is a great loss to me personally.

The Unforgettable Cheppad

the Dreamliner planes during the tenure of the lease. It plans to enter into a maintenance agreement with GE for the engines installed on the planes. If it wants to give a guaran-teed 12 year lease agreement to the lessor company, why can't it just lease the aircraft and let the lessor take care of the maintenance? If Air India does not want to take the risk of owning the aircraft, then why should it take the risk of maintaining the aircraft? The moot question here is why Air India does not want to own its own planes and use them. At least Air India would have its own planes at the end of the 12 year lease and can use them for another 8 years more as the life of the planes are around 20 years. If Air India is taking these planes on rent, it would have nothing in hand except losses at the end of 12 years.

Can somebody in Air India or the Aviation Ministry answer how Air India can benefit through this arrangement when the buyer will be making profits of hundreds if not thousands of crores of rupees out of the planes that Air India purchased with tax payer money? If Air India wanted to rent its planes, then why did it place an order for the Dreamliners from Boeing? They could have just made an arrangement with a corporation to rent the planes that the corporation buys.

How does Air India plan to sell these planes? Is Air India going to get cash for these planes? Or is Air India going to sell it on credit? If Air India is going to sell it on credit, how is the payment going to come in? Would it be monthly installments?

If it is monthly installments would it be higher than the lease

rents of the aircraft? In all probability, the monthly install-ments would not be higher than the lease rent of the aircraft. If they were, then the buyer makes no profits out of the deal. If the buyer makes no profit, he would not buy it from Air India. Now if the buyer makes a profit out of these planes by just signing purchase papers and then lease papers, then is it not a scam causing untold loss to Air

India and the nation? These questions would be out

of place if the “Dalal” was bring-ing in customers to Air India and increasing her business. But sadly that is not the case here. The Supreme Court needs to take immediate suo moto cognizance of this issue and order a high level enquiry into this racket before public money gets squandered.

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“We found that higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids in the blood of patients who were just starting (haemo) dialysis were very strong-ly associated with a lower risk of

sudden cardiac death over the first year of their treatment,” says Allon N. Friedman, associate professor of

medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and study co-author.

“This study is a first step toward identifying a possible treatment for

sudden cardiac death in dialysis patients,” adds Friedman.

Sudden car-diac death is an u n e x p e c t e d death due to car-diac causes occ-urring in a short period (genera-lly within one hour of symp-tom onset) in a p e r s o n w i t h known or un-known cardiac disease. The

study is based on 100 patients who died of such causes during their first year of haemodialysis, and 300

patients who survived, according to an Indiana statement.

“The risk of sudden cardiac death in haemodialysis patients is highest during the first year of treatment. The annual rate of such deaths is about six to seven percent, which may even exceed the rate in patients with heart failure,” Friedman said.

“Because Omega-3 fatty acids can be obtained from certain foods, such as fish oil, our findings also have important implications for the type of diet we recommend to patients on dialysis,” Friedman said.

The five-year survival rate for patients on haemodialysis is 35 percent, with the risk of death highest in the first few months of starting treatment. The most common cause of death in these patients is sudden cardiac death, which accounts for about one out of every four deaths.

Fish oil protects dialysis patients from sudden cardiac death

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Omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oils could protect dialysis patients from sudden cardiac deaths says a study.

CORPORATE COMPANIES GETTING READY FOR BANK LICENSE

Tata CapitalCyrus Mistry

Chairman, Tata Group

LIC Housing FinanceD. K. MehrotraChairman LIC

Indiabulls Fin Services Gagan Banga

CEO, Indiabulls Financial Services

Shriram Transport Finance R. Thyagarajan

Founder & Chairman Shriram Group

Aditya Birla Services Kumar Mangalam Birla

Chairman, Aditya Birla Group

L&T Finance Y. M. Deosthalee

CMD, L&T Finance Holding

Reliance Capital Anil Ambani Chairman,

Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group

Reliance Finserv Malvinder Singh

Former Chairman & CEO ofRanbaxy Laboratories & Executive

Chairman of Fortis Healthcare

Bajaj FinservRahul Bajaj

Chairman, Bajaj Auto

M&M Financial ServicesAnand Mahindra

CMD, Mahindra & Mahindra

Reliance - DE ShawMukesh Ambani

Chairman & CEO,Reliance Industries

aware of the implications of their action. The time, place, tone and tenure of the utterances can make a decisive difference and impact. Irresponsible statements pregnant with malice has the potential to ignite passions and unleash social unrest in a multi racial society which could result in mayhem and colossal destructions. No govern-ment worth its salt can abdicate from its responsibility to prevent such flare-ups. While the individual is in the comfort of security after making such statements the state is left with the burden of rehabilitation of the victims and compensation for the losses. If not curbed in time the situation might go out of control and our nation will have to lick the wounds.

This is not to condone the executive actions in curbing the criticism and silencing the opposi-tion. The sanctity of freedom is closely related to the freedom of life itself and therefore is non negoti-able. Freedom gets violated and strangulated when arbitrary deci-sions are imposed and the constitu-tional provisions are misinter-preted. We have in the statute book many archaic rules and regulations under which our law enforcing authority such as police take umbrage and the Bombay Police Act is known to be one such draconian law which has no place in a modern democracy. It is high time

the law commission scrutinizes the pros and cons of our enactments in its entity and repeal the cluster of unnecessary and redundant provi-sions. We as a nation have the potential but sadly lack the will to do and in case we fail, history will never and ever pardon us.

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