A Long Wait But Justice Triumphs in India

A Long Wait But Justice Triumphs in India

Two significant court verdicts on a single day in India gave millions of people reason to look back and ponder at the meaningless violence taking place every day. In a country where the judiciary is often criticised for the inordinate delay it takes to bring a case to closure, the verdicts showed that in the end, truth indeed triumphs. In one of the cases,the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for Ajmal Kasab for his role in the killing of 166 people during the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. In the other, a former state minister was among 32 people found guilty in the massacre of 97 in 2002. This was the first time that a former minister was being convicted in the Gujarat riots case.

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