Travesty of justice

On a different plane, this having to do with politically charged atmospherics, one has known cases to be concocted or dropped down the drain depending on which party ruled the roost at a given point in time.

All of these pale before the extraordinary tale of Manik Sheikh, now almost a middle-aged man, thanks to serving a seven-year jail term out of a sentence for life imprisonment he had been served with back in 1997 for murdering a woman which was basically ghosted; for she has been lately arrested alive by the police on a tip-off by an inexplicably delayed good Samaritan's piece of work. Accused of abducting and killing one Josna in 1996, Manik was chargesheeted following what must have been a devious exercise of going through the motions of a sham investigation by some police officer. The case should now boomerang on the victimisers, but to echo the million dollar question of Manik's father, who will return the seven years his son lost languishing in the dungeon of an overcrowded prison?

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Even in a country where under-trial prisoners lose time in confinement without being convicted or acquitted, Manik's predicament is an eye opener to the deeper malaise of not just our society but also the imperfections of our justice system.