Article - 71 Week 31 Our System Punishes The Innocent:

Article - 71 Week 31

Our System Punishes The Innocent:

India grows sustainably in spite of a third rated governance and third rated Laws and Policies. But we the people inside the industries, know the dirty little tricks and secrets of our growth. There are times, we run out of tricks. We take a beating and retreat, mauled and bleeding. We don't even expect the last vestiges of justice or humanity to save us. Only hope lies with the influence or connection to a dirty politician or a local goon to stop us from sure death. Let me tell you a true story:

It has been six months. 41 containers have been arrested by the Local Customs in Tuticorin. The containers belong to the shipping line. They came in empty, but were manifested as having full cargo inside. The shipper and consignee indulged in some scam in connivance to perpetuate a fraud. Both the shipper and the consignee are bonafide Indian nationals. The department does not have the gumption to catch them for reasons best known to them. The reasons could range from active connivance with the fraudsters, the fraudsters being too powerfully connected to politics or the underworld, simple lethargy and imbecility, ineptitude, or a sadistic pleasure of tormenting the innocent, as has been the habitual more of our system of bureaucracy.  Wonder, why we call them (Government) servants, when they harass the innocents of this nation and do such an evil disservice and get paid by our taxes! They should rather be called (Government) terrorists. That's more apt.

The facts are fully presented to the department. The investigations have been conclusive about the innocence of the shipping line with substantiations from the load port's Customs. The consignee and shippers are still free birds. But the property of the shipping line continues to be under seizure. The shipping line has been warned that it is better not to take on the crocodile, if it wants to live in the same water. 

It is time we feel ashamed of ourselves. We have lost any sense of justice, sensibility and dignity. We penalise the innocent and let the criminals go happily free. Let's hang our heads in shame for continuing with such a rotten bureaucracy!

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Brgds

Capt Rath