Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Compensation for fishermen families

Italian government has told that this money given was just a goodwill gesture. Now they have said the same to SC also. The agreement made has no legal sanctity and it is for all purposes a valueless scrap of paper. There is no meaning harping on the issue and take the view that it has helped the poor families to tide over the immediate difficulties and make a decent life. Let the criminal case go as per the law and if the marines are found guilty and punished the court can ask to give proper compensation to the families as if nothing had happened. Let it not take into account what was paid by the Italian government already. And why the apex court is not pulling up Kerala court which has approved to include the fishermen families as a party for the case and later allowed it to withdraw from it? Is it not the fault of the court in Kerala?. Government have no hand in that. Let the poor families live peacefully at least. They should not be dragged into all these legal controversies and make their life miserable for the ham-handed way the authorities deal with the killings a tragedy for the families.

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