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THE LAW CRUSHES
THE POOR AND THE
RICH CRUSHES THE
LAW
Vazir Ahmed Khan
B.Com.,LL.M.,B.J.,AFII,
Advocate & Resident Editor
The Insurance Times
O ur memory is not feigned when we turn over the who could do and undo anything. It so happened that the
pages of Indian legal history where Nanda said superstar can ran over five persons sleeping on the foot
Kumar, the Brahmo Samaj leader was made the path of the public road after the day's hard work. It is said
scapegoat by the British Governor General of that the car was driven by Salman Khan himself in a drunken
India, Lord Hastings, who, as a vendetta, had got him condition, some thirteen years back.
hanged for a simple case of forgery at the behest of the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Calcutta. The sad part of the case was that after the accident,
instead of reporting the matter to the police, he absconded
This case is considered as a blot on the pages of Indian legal even without rendering any assistance or making a courtesy
history. Our post independence era is not devoid of such call to the victims of the accident.
instances of injustice. If we observe with an open eye, our
look falls on such innumerous cases which demanded justice, This attitude of the culprit has annoyed the general public,
but the same had been consigned to the cold storage. Who supported by the social media whole heartedly, as Salman
has to answer such lapses, only the time of the black pages Khan being a celebrity owed greater duty and respect for
of the history will speak. the law and should have done more than what an ordinary
citizen was expected to do.
Now we are having a living case, which is remembered as
the Hit & Run case of Salman Khan, a Bolywood superstar, But in making this demand of justice to have him punished
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