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10.2307/j.ctv10sm9bp.8
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Dianne Easterling
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was a snippet on teenage drunken driving. It reminded me of Delhi’s Lodhi Colony Murder case where privileged youngster, son of international arms dealer and grandson of an Admiral, Sanjeev Nanda murdered seven people including two cops, leaving devastation in his wake. Sad as that was, what was even worse was that he got away with it. Given, that he wasn’t praised eloquently for his deeds, he wasn’t given enough flak either. As his witnesses turned hostile he went on to complete his MBA from Columbia University and is now back on the Indian roads as CEO of Claridges Hotels. A butcher back on the streets of Delhi. I wonder how that makes the Delhites feel. The sheer arrogance of money. Maybe we should ask ourselves who was to blame. Was it the only witness, who chickened out at the last minute? By the way, he has been given employment in a Nanda family firm. Was it highly placed friends who believe that a friend is need is a friend indeed, no matter what the deed? Or was it the incompetent prosecutors without any intellectual firepower? Or does the legal system of India itself encourage affronts to our moral decency? The sole reason why a kid is going up fatherless is behind bars of a different kind. The problem is that by the time you’ve gone through the legal system, everyone's dead and the point is moot. It is a scenario often discussed in homes of Indian Americans also. I can just hear some of them say, “This is why we don’t want to go back. Raise our kids in such a medieval legal society?”, “This happens only in India.” Actually it doesn’t. O.J. Simpson, who pleaded, “Absolutely, positively, 100% not guilty” and was forced to make financial reparations of $33.5 Million after losing the wrongful death suit says that if he has to work to pay his ex-wife’s family, then he just won’t work. The former football star has been living off his NFL pension and an annual annuity, both of which cannot be touched by the courts. I guess the Twit anthem would be what Kitchener said before his victory in the Battle of Omdurman, Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun and they have not