JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED "Justice delayed is justice denied.

" This line was written by William Ewart Gladstone (1809 - 1898). He was one of the greatest of English Politicians and also former British Prime Minister. Its been 60 years since India got independence sixty years after Independence, we have endless laws but not enough justice. Case 1(JyotirmoyDey case): Dey, a senior investigating editor with a tabloid MiD Day, was shot dead on June 11 last year in Powai. Vora was arrested on November 25 and has been in jail since then.The scribe was claimed to have been shot dead on the orders of underworld don ChhotaRajan, who allegedly gave Rs 5lakh to the accused for the contract killing.Police claimed that professional rivalry between Vora and Dey was the reason for the latter's murder. Vora provoked Rajan, who conspired and killed Dey, police said.A year after senior crime reporter JyotirmoyDey was gunned down in suburban Powai, city police are still awaiting reports from forensic laboratory on the analysis of mobile phones, memory cards and computers allegedly used by journalist JignaVora, who was arrested in connection with the murder. The justice still awaited. Case 2(Ruchika case) RuchikaGirhotra, a fourteen year old budding tennis player was molested in 1990 by the then Inspector General of Police, Shambhu Pratap Singh Rathore, in Haryana, India. A tenth class student at the Sacred Heart School for girls in Chandigarh, Ruchika along with her friend AradhanaPrakash enrolled as a trainee at the Haryana Lawn Tennis Association (HLTA) for which Rathore was the founding President. It was during one of the practice sessions, Rathore molested Ruchika in his garage. Both Ruchika and Aradhanas parents lodged a formal complaint against Rathore.Rathore, making use of his power and authority tried to scuttle the investigation by many not so legal means. He even influenced the school authorities to expel Ruchika. Such was his clout in the political circlesHowever, Ruchika lost the last straw of patience, when on September 23rd

1993; police picked her 13-year-old brother Ashu from a market place near his house on the charges of stealing almost a dozen cars. Unable to bear this humiliation any further, Ruchika committed suicide on December 28th 1993 by consuming poison.On August 21st 1998, the Punjab and Haryana High court directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct an inquiry expeditiously, preferably within six months but it was almost a year before CBI could file a chargesheet. On November 16th 2000, the CBI filed a chargesheet against Rathore. Nineteen years, 40 adjournments and 400 hearings later, all Rathore got was six months of imprisonment and a 1000 Rupees fine. However, he obtained bail within 10 minutes of the verdict after furnishing a bail bond of 10,000 Rupees. A nineteen year delay is nothing short of shame for a country which rules by law. In fact it is just not a delay of the justice but rather murder of the justice itself There are 4.04 crores cases pending in different district courts across the country while there is a backlog of 34 lacks cases in State High Courts. 1,66,77,657 criminal cases are pending before Magisterial courts and 72,37,495 civil cases are pending in various subordinate courts. As many as 70 percent of these cases are litigations from villagers. Again some of these cases are as long as 25 to 30 years old. The longer a case runs, the more expensive it becomes to pursue.