Monday, May 28, 2012

Bail for Italian Marines

The argument that if released the marines will not be available is, to say the least, stupid. Italian government, that is a sovereign government is standing surety that they will be produced for trials. Italy is not a 'banana republic'. It is country of the European Union. As a mature nation India has to give credence when a nation take the responsibility for the marines. There were reports that the marines had told that they will surrender their passports. Just imagine, can two foreigners without any passport but with a fake passport  with no visa stamped can escape from India. Even when a common man goes to a foreign country the police man looks at the passport some ten times then your face once again the photo in passport and all. A relation of mine who was a US citizen was going back to US on the last day of the expiry of the Indian visa. He told me that the police man counted some ten times the number of days he has stayed in India to see whether he has over stayed. In such case how these two will be able to get out of India? And if say in a once in trillion or quadrillion case they escape can't be tried in absentia and punished ?. In these cases what is more important is punishing for the crime committed and not whether they stayed in jail or not. Objecting the bail is stupid and is just playing to the gallery.

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