We wiil miss you Kasab

Lets look at scenario of what would have happened if social workers in the country had been heard

Ajmal Kasab would have been released after serving 30 years in jail to mark friendship of India and Pakistan. Both BJP and Congress would have claimed credit for fostering the peace agreement. At the current rate of cost of his protection, around Rs 500 crores would have been spent on his security alone. After getting released he would have participated in big boss in Pakistan and had become national celebrity in Pakistan. Then Raj Gopal Verma would have made a film inspired by his life which would have become super hit in Pakistan.

Meanwhile families of hundred of people who had lost their breadwinners at his hand would have only delved deeper into crisis. Every year 26 November comes and goes but no one even asks the families if they even got their compensation. As per a recent newspaper article out of 11 NSG commandos matyred in 26/11 crisis, only four people got compensation. The reason those 7 people did not got compensation is very easy to guess.

But this does not stops super pseudo intellectuals from promoting themselves. In one article published in the Hindu, author went to extent of claiming that Kasab did not got chance to file judicial review, as if he spoke to the dead. I am sick of reading articles on Kasab after his death, people vomiting their brains against the death penalty. As if it is not enough, some newspaper have gone to extent of publishing his complete biography. As if he was not a terrorist but a superstar.

I am also no fan of death penalty myself. I even felt a moment a sadness after reading heartwarming eulogies of butcher from Faridabad(pun intended). But i believe that after the due process of law has been followed, and death penalty have been upheld by Supreme Court, President should not be given opportunity to play god. There is no reason that President of India who cannot take any executive decision without the central government's approval, be given the responsibility of deciding matters of life and death.

Meanwhile there has never been possibly easier case of deciding the death penalty. Kasab did not came here to live in high security jail. He came here with a single minded focus to kill people and achieve martyrdom and god LET know what else in his jannat. He exhibited no remorse in his court trials. Government only delayed his martyrdom and caused insufferable agony to families of his victims. I just wonder if the plight of families of his victims had gotten similar attention during the past four years then how many lives would have been changed for real.