Unannounced official visit - Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: January 20, 2014 - Despite being one of the oldest legal systems in the world as well as the most important components in the process of dispute resolution in the country, Indian judiciary has time and again left the people ‘simply disgusted’ and eroded their faith in the judiciary on account of inordinate delay in the disposal of cases. Too much time may have gone by but too little has been done to sort out the problem that has undermined the rights of litigants and accused, thus, damaging the credibility of the judiciary, and weakening the very basis of the democratic order. In the light of this track record, there may be nothing so surprising in the deferment of the much-awaited final verdict on the infamous triple murder case, which would have decided the fate of NSCN-IM lieutenant colonel Hopeson Ningshen in the abduction and subsequent murder of Dr Thingnam Kishan, the then SDO of Kasom Khullen and his two subordinate staffs namely Revenue Mandal Yumnam Token and driver Aribam Rajen in February 2009. After a three-long year trial, a special court of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which took over the investigation of the case from the State Government in January, 2010, was supposed to pronounce the verdict on Saturday. However, Justice V.K Gupta, who is to make the final verdict, just went off on an official tour, and the pronouncement of the verdict postponed and kept pending till January 25, much to the amusement of both the accused and victims’ parties, who duly turned up in time to hear it. Read full @ goo.gl/LChgsN
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 02:45:25 +0000
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