Sick justice.

India is not the only country where justice is arbitrary, influenced by politicians and sentences depend on whims of judges. In Britain, which is forever lecturing others about due process and human rights, teenagers who had committed no crime were sentenced to long jail terms just for being physically present at the scene during riots in August. Guardian Weekly, December 9. Sharon, a 19 year old, was caught up in the rioting. She entered a looted shop and picked up a pair of mismatched trainers, then dropped them and took a bus home. Her home was raided by police at 3am, like the KGB or Gestapo, and she was sentenced to 10 months in prison just because she was seen on CCTV. Thus a 19 year old gets a criminal record affecting her employment prospects for life for something she did not do. Samuel, 18 years old, was arrested empty handed standing in a Curry's store which had already been looted. His mother could see him in prison only after 5 days and when she returned home she found an eviction notice from Wandsworth County Council. Britain never fails to criticise Israel for demolishing houses of terrorists because it is collective punishment for the entire family for the crimes of one but here a family was being made homeless not for committing any crime but just for being present at the scene of a crime. Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge said," Given the overall ghastliness of what was going on in the country, these sentences had to be significantly higher." In short, justice was dictated by politics. Yet in Britain senior police officers of Scotland Yard, who had been exposed as having accepted bribes from News International, were allowed to resign presumably with all pensions and other perks. Every issue of Private Eye is full of stories about politicians and civil servants giving contracts to dubious companies costing the taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds and then being paid extremely lucrative salaries to sit on boards of the same companies. David Cameron rabbits on about the " Big Society " but does not realise that big society is composed of little people. Marie Antoinette was shocked when a friend admonished her for being naked in front of men because she did not consider servants as " men ". Cameron would do well to remember what happened to her.