People taking justice in their hands

People taking justice in their hands
Advisor to Prime Minister for Interior affairs and security Malik Rehman is on record, he has said on April 9, after Karachi killings that no tyre will be burnt from today and onwards in Karachi. This might have worried the junk trades of tyre, but people at large have expressed their happiness. Perhaps, the advisor was right and we witnessed that no tyre was burnt after that, rather we witness that human being are set on fire. The roads of Karachi had become Shamshan Ghat.
People after disappointed from the administrative and judicial system have taken justice in their hands. Saturday’s incident was second in the series in which provoked people at Sakhi Hassan caught hold of robbers/thieves and set them fire. In the first incident enraged mob got hold of two robbers in Ranchhor lines that had committed dacoity in a flat and burnt them alive. This all happened not some far flung area where there is no reach of police or other administrative machinery, but it was in Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh. In Karachi there are two governments one of provincial and another is of city government. It seems that there is no central command in the province.
Whether there are thieves or other criminals, it is not in the purview of the common man to punish them. If it continues, any one would catch his rival and set on fire terming him/her as thief. It is agreed that this was a spontaneous reaction of the people.
This spontaneous reaction was proving the non existence of law. In fact this reaction indicates inner anger of the people and protest against the administration and system. People gather anger and it outburst on certain point.
When people do not get good governance and they feel unprotected, they create new forms of their resistance and response. Here I am not disputing as to how much this form was legal nor discussing what were the psychological initiatives, because psychological reasons are best known to every one. Point is why state has failed to feel its presence? Hunger, unemployment, sense of insecurity and price spiral has crossed the level of tolerance. People either loose their sense out of fear or express their extreme reaction.
People have set ablaze thieves and robbers in two above incidents. This was murder a crime, the accused were punished more than their crime. This should also be investigated whether these incidents were spontenous or certain elements were behind it, who wanted to destablise the elected governemnet.
The attitude of police to the robbers set on fire is strage as police remained silent spectors. The reputation of police has reached to a degree that people were not ready to hand over the accused caught in the crime. Though this trend is limited up Karachi for time being, but after such happenings in Karachi may set model stting.
The incidents of crime which later led to burning of the accused took place in the braod day light. The robbers and criminals have become so daring that they were not fearing of law, neither iron hand of law. When iron hand of law is paralysed and collapsed, such type of incidents took place.
This trend indicates people’s resentment and no confidence in law and judicial system. After disappointed from the system people have adapted their own methods to restore justice. People want protection, protection from robbers, and dracoin form of police . What the state was doing for the peope? It was doing nothing, then it was understood that people were making their own decisions.
If this was not stopped, and law of the land was not made operative, a number of criminals and organized mafia would push the country to anarchy from hwere its return would be if not possible but would be difficult one.
The situation can not be reversed through implementing the existing law – which treats people indiscriminate manner.
If people had trust in law and judiciary this would have not happened. Restore the writ of law.