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.

Prologue

So here it goes…..
Well, I almost always spell my name VINIT, but the smart clerk in my school corrected it on my SCC certificate as VINEET. And so the confusion started…
After two weeks of joining Persistent, one fateful evening at around 2100 hrs I received a call from Persistent HR on my landline. His voice seems to be somewhat irritated (I never saw HR guys working late-night ;-)) but the real blow was yet to come my way. The HR guy immediately came to main subject and asked me whether I rejected the offer Persistent had made one and half months back. I didn’t understand what he said, as for me it was totally out of context. (Besides I was still on bench and there were all kinds of rumors about ‘bad/no performance gift’ floating around) Keeping aside all kind of thoughts and possibilities filling my mind, I gathered my words and told him my employee ID. After checking the employee database he laughed and said ‘Oh, you are VINEET and not VINIT, but your resume carries VINIT?’ Great!!! What’s in name? (Somebody might have lost his performance allowance due to my name ;))
I don’t believe in numerology kind of stuff neither do I am superstitious. But I like spelling myself Vinit. Besides its short, I don’t have to type/write one extra character every time. But now that all my certificates carry Vineet, I have to stick to my corrected incorrect spelling. :(
So the point is…If your name can be spelled wrong, it will.

Murphy Says

If anything can go wrong, it will.