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| It is ironical indeed | | | By: Yash Bhasin
Ironically enough passing of the two-day visit of President, APJ Abdul
Kalam to Kashmir, to attend the diamond jubilee celebrations of J&K
High Court, without any major untoward incident taking place has
formed a big news. The state administration and security agencies have
heaved a sigh of relief over peaceful conduct of the event and have
the reason to rejoice over it, congratulating each other. In fact in
these days of turmoil in Kashmir, bomb blasts, terrorist strikes,
targeting of security forces, killings of innocents and even crack
downs by the security forces on the civilians, causing all the
hardships to the common man, do not make as big a news as the non
occurrence of such events. This falsifies the old saying that when a
dog bites the man, it is no news, but when man bites a dog, it makes a
big news. At the rate human values are deteriorating, the times are
not far off when men will start biting the dogs and dogs will become
human enough to give up biting. In fact dogs bite only when they fear
or suspect a person of evil intention. But these days men bite without
any reason and rhyme. Otherwise how can one explain the wanton
killings of the innocent, including the children and women, indulged
into in the very name of religion, which preaches love and compassion
and that all are the creatures of the same God.
Coming back to the diamond jubilee celebrations of the formation of
J&K High Court, it is ironical enough that the lawyers fraternity of
Srinagar and other places in the valley who are part and parcel of the
judicial system not only chose to boycott the big event, but also held
demonstration against its celebration. Ironically enough when lengthy
speeches and sermons were being delivered over value of judicial
system and administration of justice, whose fundamental is the right
of defence even to an accused of a most heinous crime, the Kashmir Bar
Association is obstructing this right of defence to the accused in the
Srinagar sex scam.
Again, it is ironical that lawyers of Jammu, who have chosen to
participate in the diamond jubilee celebrations of J&K High Court,
have been on a over month long strike over a trifle, denying
administration of justice to the aggrieved, which is the chief
objective of the judicial system.
With due apology for little digression, ironically enough, it are not
only the secessionist outfits, who are invoking the hanging of Maqbool
Bhat, after due legal process and his guilt having been amply
established, but even the mainstream politicians and even a former
President of J&K Pradesh Congress, the government of whose party in
the Centre executed the sentence, are using it as a means to settle
personal scores with their political foes.
Maqbool Bhat, one of the pioneer Kashmiri secessionist terrorists, who
had murdered Indian envoy, Mehotra, was sentenced to be hanged after a
prolonged judicial trial and all the formalities gone through and his
final appeal having been rejected. His mercy petition which was then
pending with the President of the country for quite some time, was
rejected on the advise of the Central government led by Indira Gandhi,
in the wake of hijacking of Indian Airlines flight by Hashim Qureshi,
who made the plane land at Lahore, on gun point and the plane was
blown off at Lahore Airport, with the blessings of then Pak Prime
Minister, Zulfqar Ali Bhutto. This fact was later confirmed by Hashim
Qureshi himself. This development was followed by 1971 Indo Pak war,
leading to the dismemberment of Pakistan, with East Pakistan becoming
an independent sovereign state of Bangladesh.
It is ironical indeed that a leader of the Congress, whose party
members day in and day out swears in the name of late Indira Gandhi,
should invoke an action of the Union government, taken on behest of
the tallest party leader, Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister of the
country, using it as a stick to beat his political opponent and at the
same time rival leader throwing the ball back in the court of his
detractor, by expressing his sympathy for the executed terrorist
Maqbool Bhat. In fact, a stage has reached in Kashmir, where
mainstream and separatist politicians are vying with each other to win
over the sympathy of the terrorists and by their overt and covert
suggestion and actions are projecting them as martyrs.
Reverting to the boycott of the High Court diamond jubilee
celebrations by the Kashmir Bar Association, the same has secessionist
overtones. In fact, KBA has been always dominated by the separatists
and the pro-secessionists. Even before the onset of present militancy
in Kashmir, the KBA was under the influence of separatists. So much so
that KBA had opposed the installation of the statue of Mahatama Gandhi
in the premises of the High Court, when the same shifted to its new
premises, opposite the Civil Secretariat Srinagar. And guess who were
the leaders of the advocates protesting against this installation of
Mahatama Gandhi's statue in the High Court premises? None other than
the present Deputy Chief Minister, Muzaffar Hussain Baigh and Justice
Bilal Nazqi, who later became judge of the J&K High Court.
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