One of the most basic buildings of a functioning democracy is a fair and just judicial system. The establishment of such legal institutions means to comply with the skeletal frame of a judicial system, which guarantees fairness, accountability and equality at every level of the hierarchy and at the same time cultivates a culture of democratic government. Such a structure can be greatly undermined by cases such as the initial appointment of Vikas Barala, the son of the BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subhash Barala, as deputy general attorney in Haryana on July 18, although in a case of 2017 against the alleged stalking and trying to examine an IAS officer in examination by the daughter of the officer.
After their complaint, in which it was claimed that Vikas Barala and his girlfriend tried and tried to force them to force their vehicle late in the night in Chandigarh, these two men were booked in accordance with the IPC sections 354D (stalking), 341 (false reluctance), 365 (attempt to dismantle) and 511, in addition to accusations for drunk driving.
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After receiving this case 100 hearings in the court courtBut repeatedly postponed for various reasons, which extends the case for almost a decade.
Public outrage and institutional reaction in response to the Vikas Barala case
This stalking case led to a large-scale public outrage, with forty-five retired IAS officials published a convincing open letter against the decision to the Prime Minister of Haryana, Nayab Singh Saini. The letter sentenced the date Indication: ‘We are shocked to find out that a stalking case, the son of the BJP ex-state boss, was appointed by her government as deputy general attorney. We are no longer losing to understand the logic behind the appointment of a person who is accused of having followed a woman as an assistant AG. ‘
In this letter, the officials made aware of the judgment of the Supreme Court of 2011 that PJ Thomas was appointed head of the Central Wahnsinnskommission due to pending charges against him, and argued that certain facts in parallel in parallel.
Varnika Kundu also accepted it to talk about this neo-patrimonial injustice, explain “To appoint someone in a public power position is not only a political decision, but also reflecting the values and standards. Perhaps the questions should be addressed to the authorities whose ethics and standards enable this decision. ‘
In this letter, the officials made aware of the judgment of the Supreme Court of 2011 that PJ Thomas was appointed head of the Central Wahnsinnskommission due to pending charges against him, and argued that certain facts in parallel in parallel.
Her father and former IAS officer against Kundu, who was currently heading the Revenue Commission, also made an explanation in which it was emphasized that the government had to act morally. Maintenance: ‘Although I cannot comment on the Barala family’s appointments, this appointment is not really my concern. Every citizen should question it. I am more concerned about the slow progress of the case, in which only law enforcement was completed in eight years. ‘
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The public outcry was the congress manager and the former Prime Minister of Haryana, CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Indication “Only competent people should be appointed in the general lawyer office”, and the All India Trinamool Congress decodes this event on X: “Beti Bachao” Slogan from BJP is a shameless, calculated deception. Her actions in Haryana reveal a grotesque betrayal of trust! You have appointed Vikas Barala, the son of a BJP MP and a man, and a man who is accused of sexual harassment and attempt as a deputy general lawyer! Leave the immersion: a man for bail because of this serious charges receives a position of legal authority. It is an outrageous perversion of justice and protection of predators in their own ranks. ‘
The subsequent counter reaction led to the revocation of the position of the legal representative of Vikas Barala, which offers hopeful evidence of the possibility of civil commitment and public supervision in order to remove the political decisions of the partisans. However, this may not even offer a potential panacea for future regressive laws that seem to be characteristic for current administration Comments “What I will speak is my own case and the fact that, despite months of attention from the national media, it has taken little progress.” The appointment of a person who is exposed to nepotistic connections in a position of legal authority due to criminal harassment shows systemic defects in institutional protective measures and raises serious questions about the integrity of our democratic legal system.
The “Protection Backers” model: systematic sign before accounting
What seems to be a one -off incident of authority without an accountability is based in the context of a despotic authoritarian regime, whereby this event is so common that it deserves the name “The Wasch Machine” through the opposition, those, who, who, who, who, who, who, describe This phenomenon as “the mechanism, by the politician, which is accused of corruption, is not exposed to legal consequences if you terminate your party and join the BJP”.
Since 2014, 25 opposition leaders have terminated their respective parties for criminal prosecution and allied with their former political enemies, the Bharatiya Janata party.
Since 2014, 25 opposition leaders have terminated their respective parties for criminal prosecution and allied with their former political enemies, the Bharatiya Janata party. These accused politicians who have previously been connected to various parties of the nation state: 10 from the congress, four of NCP, four from Shiv Sena, three from the Trinamool Congress, one from Samajwadi and one of YSRCP. The leaders mentioned in the Indian Express report include Ajit Pawar, Praful Patel, Ashok Chavan, Himanta Biswa Sarma, Suvendu Adhikari, Pratap Sarnaik, Hasan Mushrif, Bhavana Gawali and others.
With this clever political overlapping, the unhindered control has that our regime exercises the legal system for 23 of these leaders of the investigative agencies. Around 20 of these cases are either stalled or in the cooling storage and about three were completely closed.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi was relentless in the face of these allegations and vehemently emphasized the independence of the central agencies Indication that we neither hinder nor lead their actions. They work independently, and this is assessed by the scales of the judiciary. ‘
This legal injustice is further exacerbated by the inherent falsehood of this declaration – after 2014, at least 95 percent of the remarkable civil servants examined by the Enforcement Directorates (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). When asked by the prime minister groomed That the ED follows the same procedure to initiate a case, regardless of the government party at power.
The postcolonial India has long been known in the international arena as a “patronage democracy”, in which mass election behavior is dictated by the expectations of access to the state – a reward system in which supporters of the party expect material rewards in exchange for their political support.
The postcolonial India has long been known in the international arena as a “patronage democracy”, in which mass election behavior is dictated by the expectations of access to the state – a reward system in which supporters of the party expect material rewards in exchange for their political support. This system of politics reflects dimensions of identity -based parochialism and clientelism. While ideological framework is supposed to determine political behavior, the phenomenon of political connections that family members protect against accountability must not be understood.
The statistics are astonishing: 98 MPs from 398 members of BJP have registered criminal proceedings against them. 26 out of 81 MPs from the Congress, 7 out of 36 from Trinamool, 3 of 6 of RJD, 8 of CPI (M), 11 of 31 from the YSR Congress, from 11 by AAM AADMI party and 2 out of 8 MPs from NCP have explained serious criminals against themselves.
India’s political system has developed into sophisticated protective networks in which governing parties systematically protect their employees from accounting.
The erosion of democratic institutions
This pattern represents more than isolated incidents of the bad judgment – it reflects a fundamental conversion of democratic institutions into weapons of political protection. If those who want to maintain the law are accused themselves of having broken it, and if the political loyalty becomes a shield against legal effects, the basics of democratic sovereignty are greatly undermined.
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The case in Barala ultimately contains the fragility of institutional bulwarks due to the public coercion if it is confronted with Patrimonially firmly anchored networks of political preservation. It underlines the continued struggle between formal democratic processes and informal power nets, which continue to shape Indian politics across party borders and threaten the essence of equal justice according to the law.
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