Another bomb blast; this time outside the High Court. HUJI has allegedly taken responsibility and threatened more such blasts if a certain man convicted in the December, 13, 2001 Parliament Terror Attack is not released. Whatever the truth but one thing is clear: India cannot afford to inordinately delay important decisions nor can it make vague excuses of our Democratic and judicial system being responsible for the same.
While investigations and court trials take time our leadership must not delay their decisions hoping to derive some political or other benefit.
People will demand and get a bigger contingent of police outside the High Courts; tomorrow it will be District Courts. How many policemen can we spare?
As I have repeatedly said "terror must be stopped at the gates", and homegrown terror has to be fought on a daily basis and not when a blast takes place. Investigation and deterrent punishment are of course very important but prevention is far more so. if it means that more and more people/organizations/groups have to be brought under close surveillance then it cannot be avoided.
Unless the people in charge of security take their duties more seriously we cannot defeat terror.
Finally, if the government is squeamish about enforcing law, it might as well abolish death penalty and accept the consequences.
Today we a great big country with big aspirations are looking like 'pushovers', something the law minister said last week that we are not.
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