Sir — The Gulbarg Society verdict has once again highlighted the “justice gap” between crime and conviction prevalent in our criminal justice system. It stands to reason that planning, organising, mobilising and facilitating a massacre, as was done at Gulbarg, is as much a punishable crime as committing the actual massacre.
Still, the masterminds got of scot-free because of a lack of evidence. The prosecution, it appears, for whatever reason, did not gather and present “suficient” evidence to secure their conviction. The neglect of social responsibility to keep the peace was not just a breach of constitutional obligation but also amounted to complicity in the crime. This was glossed over so as to attach no blame to those at the helm of the affairs at the time of the riots.