This refers to the editorial, “Justice but not partly” (May 11). The editorial has rightly said that in comparison to the macabre act of chopping off Professor TJ Joseph's hands, the convicted 13 have not got the comeuppance. Some of them will be out within days. The National Investigation Agency, which was probing the case, must have been jolted with the verdict, but it must not get disheartened. It should knock at the High Court's door for the desired punishment.
Mr Joseph was alleged to have made blasphemous remarks about Prophet Mohammed, which later proved to be untrue. The professor has had had a plethora of agonies as, during his termination but prior to his re-instatement, his wife committed suicide. Even though the Sessions Court has awarded a lenient sentence to the 13 convicts, it has given enough signals that barbarism has no place in secular India. This exists in countries that are ruled by fundamentalist elements.