Thursday, February 26, 2009

Is India becoming the next china ?

Ajit was sent to jail for having a community carrying anonymous comments saying Shiv Sena is trying to divide this country. SC recently quashed his complaint.


China had the Tienanmen square episode two decades ago, charter 08 this year and the world is happy about the fading of communism. Now here is my country, the world's largest successful democracy without a coup d’ état and now we are somewhere in the grey zone of communism where a number of people with common interests are trying to violate the freedom of speech of the citizens that have played the most vital role in building this country. TOI reports

Outraged bloggers vented their ire in cyberworld against the Supreme Court’s take that they may face libel, even prosecution, for airing their views online. Believing their freedom of expression is in danger, bloggers railed at the SC’s refusal to quash a criminal complaint against a fellow blogger.
At the center of the furore is 19-year-old Ajith D from Kerala. His web community, not blog, on a social networking site, carried several anonymous comments accusing Shiv Sena of trying to divide the country on region and caste lines. The Sena’s youth wing, in turn, filed a criminal complaint against Ajith in Thane police station. After getting anticipatory bail from Kerala HC, Ajith moved the SC to quash the complaint on the ground that the contents did not have defamation value...
So who is to blame, the supreme court, the blogger or the government who could have played a role in influencing the judgment ? I don't know, but all I can say is that the current events are not in the interest of the nation. People can get away by vandalizing places, monuments, igniting public violence but if a person criticizes or even abuses them is sent to jail. Can we say we are living in a democratic country ?
Watch this video of the famous Tank man who dared to stand up against the communist rule. He was finally killed by the secret police.


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  1. Nidhi MalhotraFeb 26, 2009 07:51 AM
    See all such senas like shiv sena, bajrang dal n all r really dividing our country on d name of God, religion , caste n all...and even some politicians like Vilas rao deshmukh, raj thakkre n all too divide our nation by saying mumbai is for marathis n n all....even an innocent rahul who was declared as terrorist bcz he was belongs to bihar n went to mumbai for job..
    and our government, SC have not yet taken any actions against them, bt they take action against an innocent Ajit ( a Child) , who raise his voice against all d violence.....waooo what a system v hve in our country....hurrrr

    what v toking about democracy,.....Is it all about Democracy? where AAM ADMI hve no right to speak n xpress deir views about rights...

    well i jus wanna to say dere is nt a single Ajit in our nation, v all r Ajit n v never fear frm raising our voices against violence... n m very proud to have such Ajit in our country...
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  2. It is death of Freedom of speech. In orkut there are many communities like I hate Biharis, I hate North-Indian bhaiyyas etc and some of them are also hosted by the people like Shiv Sena and MNS. Why couldn't that organisations are to banned and those persons are jailed? I don know the whole detail of punishment.i.e. under which section he is punishable as criminal and how is liable for the comments on his community. But I found these info from Shantanu's blog link : http://satyameva-jayate.org/2009/02/25/blogs-comments-liability/
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