“Dear
Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone
to talk to.”
― Stieg Larsson in his book The Girl Who Played with Fire
The
great deal in the fight against corruption throughout the world today is the
problem in identifying the enemy, the very thing for the sake of which a
crusade is to be raised up. Corruption is the prime enemy of any developing
economy of the world today, India is no exception. The continuous lagging in
the global development index accounts to the corruption existing in the Indian
administrative system; its collective nature hinders the anything that tends to
reach out to end it, thus it continues to breed and become stronger by every
passing day. It becomes shocking that we have overlooked this national shame
and don’t take it as a threat to the legacy of loyalty, India has been known
for.
A
research organization Transparency International establishes that about 40% of Indians had firsthand
experience of paying bribes or using a contact to get a job done in public
office. Where have we reached after 67
years of independence? A
democracy is popularly known as a government of the people, by the people, for
the people. In India, democracy doesn’t seem to be a government for the
people due to the fact that common people don’t have access to a fair trial,
which is the primary constitutional right of a citizen. Corruption has
developed in a better way than India did, one such example is the case of Hari Singh, a teacher from
Bhondsi, Gurgaon in Haryana.
Hari
Singh is serving a life sentence for an alleged hijack which he didn’t intend
to do, but posed to, for making a political point. The honorable high
court asked the government to suitably commute the sentence awarded to him, as
he did the crime consequentially, aggrieved with the communal fire that broke
out in India during 1992-1993. Corruption blew away the will of government to
ensure justice to Hari Singh, and he has been left with no option but to
continue with the punishment he was awarded. He lost his chance to secure
justice for himself in order to live a normal life with his family. The
sufferings of Hari Singh and his family don’t seem to end as their future has
become uncertain & hopes are diminishing by every passing day. Let’s
end their wait for justice & defeat corruption together so that fighting
for right doesn’t become corruption’s fodder. Let’s
justice be done to him so that none of us could become a victim of this deep
rooted corruption. Justice for Hari Singh.
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