Always turn the other cheek.

A court in UK has rejected an application by the CBI for the extradition of Ravi Shankaran, a key accused in the Naval War Room leak case. To add insult to injury the court ordered the CBI to pay Rs 10 million to cover legal costs. Shankaran had appealed against an earlier decision to extradite him to India saying that the long time taken to resolve any case in India would violate his human rights. The judges seem to have bought his argument. They have reason. S Nambi Narayanan, a senior officer at the Indian Space Research Organisation, was falsely accused of spying in 1994. In 1996 the CBI found the charges were without substance and the Supreme Court dismissed the case in 1998. But till date the state of Kerala has refused to punish the police official who brought the false charges and has refused to pay any compensation. Meanwhile a grand jury in Chicago in the US indicted Congress Rajya Sabha MP, KVP Ramachandra Rao of accepting bribes to sell titanium products from mines in Andhra Pradesh to an unnamed company based in Chicago. Mr Rao was close to the late Congress Chief Minister of Andhra, YSR Rajasekhara Reddy whose son, Jaganmohan Reddy is now being investigated for being involved in illegal iron ore mining. No smoke without fire, what? We Indians are so sweet that we are always turning the other cheek. While Americans and the British charge our citizens from far away we allow them to get away with serious crimes committed on our soil. Two days before our diplomat, Devyani Khobragade was sexually assaulted by New York Police on 12 December 2012 the husband of the maid and her 2 children were flown out of Delhi to the US. On an Air India flight no less. They had been provided US visas surreptitiously by an official of the US embassy in Delhi in a clear conspiracy to embarrass India. This official has now quietly left India without having been strip searched or having her cavities explored. However, this pales into insignificance at the decision of the Congress to give a ticket to a hijacker to stand for parliamentary elections from Salempur in UP. Seems that one Bholanath Pandey hijacked an Indian Airlines plane in 1978 demanding release of Ms Indira Gandhi from jail. Naturally, Dal Khalsa is demanding that Gajinder Singh, who hijacked an Indian Airlines fight to Lahore in 1981, should also be pardoned. So, when an Indian Airlines flight was hijacked to Kandahar in 1999 the then BJP government surrendered meekly. Always turn the other cheek. No matter how much others slap us around.