Prior to our country’s independence, politicians, freedom
fighters and citizens alike used to break the laws ignoring the British
‘dikats’ and used to get arrested to go to the jail protesting against the
British Raj. Today the entire scenario has changed and ‘We the people’ have
become law abiding citizens of India unlike our predecessors.
We sincerely believe that ‘Law will take its own course’
whenever a crime is committed like rape, molestation, tax evasion, traffic
violation or even murder. The first thing we do is to go underground to
facilitate the police to do their duty of searching in right earnest. In their
search, sometimes we take them from Gujarat to Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh to
Haryana at Government expenses giving them an opportunity for sight seeing as
well. By chance if they are able to catch us with our pants down, we tell the
countrymen that we are not hiding or running away. We are very much here in the
country and how strongly we believe in our judiciary which allows the law to
take its own course.
As a law abiding citizen, we mow down people sleeping on a
footpath and sincerely produce a dummy driver before the law to deal with. In
case of rape & molestation, we blame the victim in the name of consensual
sex. We do all kinds of illegal querying, constructions of multi stored
buildings and shoddy land deals in benami names but when caught, blame the
administration or the opposition to frame us in the deal. Being a law abiding
citizen, we overcome all these hurdles with right connections at the top.
If we are politicians, it is most likely that we get a chest
pain when police come knocking with arrest warrant. We usually get admitted
into a hospital much before their arrival. Whenever our political party is
defeated in the election, we always take stock of the situation and retrospect
as to why and what went wrong but still arrive no where! If caught in
‘horse-trading’ or rigging the votes on camera, we plead not guilty blaming the
very media whom they patronize.
We always show our full faith in judiciary but the moment the
court verdict goes against us, all our faith and respect vanishes. We are never
afraid or ashamed to go to jail because we always come out on bail or pay-roll.
Our learned lawyers ensure that the case is dragged on and on. Finally, we go
for appeal in higher court.
No doubt, we have mastered the art of saving our
skin through various loopholes in the system. After all, all these loopholes
are part of the law and we are abiding citizens of those very laws!
WISHING YOU
ALL A VERY HAPPY
‘LAW ABIDING YEAR-2014’
