On the accounts of ‘New York’

Last week Govt. of India rejected GUJCOCA (Gujarat Control of Organized Crime Act). I always have this question, does this kind of law really necessary? Specifically the provisions like ‘confession before a police officer will be admissible’
I know this is quite debatable issue, especially when we all are facing the heat of terrorism. I agree to the point that more authority should be given to police forces and investigation agencies. They should be better prepared and more equipped, not only in terms of arms and ammunition but also with strong backing of law. But then the real question is to what extent, shouldn’t there be some limit over that, shouldn’t these agencies be answerable? Is the cost we are going to pay is justified?
Whether it’s GUJCOCA, MCOCA, POTA or TADA from my point of view the law that gives unlimited authority to any Govt. agency can not be justified.

Sometimes I think we are trying to fit ourselves in the shoes of USA, UK or Australia. We are so much fascinated with these western countries that we just become blind to the pitfalls in their systems.
Take the example of USA where post 9/11 thousands were kept behind the bar without any specific charges, most of them were innocent. After eight years USA president is now saying ‘America will be safer when Guantanamo Bay is closed’. But who can return the life of those thousands of innocents, tortured, humiliated, and destroyed forever. Of course nobody will take any responsibility for the loss because it is justified by the law of US government.
Do we forget the detention of Dr. Haneef in Australia? And after all, even without the enforcement of laws like POTA our investigation agencies have already shown their potential in misuse of so called weak IPC and CrPC. How can we believe our life will be in safe hands once such kind of law is in force?
It really doesn’t matter whether the government is Communist, Nazi, Talibani, Muslim republic or Democratic, it doesn’t even matter whether the society is orthodox or liberal, if unlimited authority is going in certain people’s hands without any control over them, misuse will come to pass.
Fortunately whenever such brutal laws tries to conquest freedom of mankind, there comes a ray of hope, sometimes it comes with Gandhi, sometimes with Tank man in Tiananmen Square and sometimes she is Iranian Neda Sultan, showing us the way to civilized society where our cast, religion, race, political view or skin color is not the measure of our innocence and fight for freedom, equality and justice is not termed as anti-national activity.