[IAC++] Your goodness (and other Veterans) should still talk to VKS

Dear Veteran Major General Sh. Ashok Coomar

 

Thanks for your reply and your question whether your goodness should still think of talking to VKS when he is already agitating and even in jail for this anti - rape agitation.

 

In this regard, still my request is that your goodness ought to talk to VKS due to reasons given below:-

 

What I meant was not merely General VKS coming on Jantar Mantar (which he had already done) for anti - rape agitation, but for raising demands, as I mentioned in my letter, regarding:-

 

(1)- Fast track courts all over India to try the rape cases

 

(2)- Expenses for these fast track courts to be born by Union of India

 

(3)- Punishment for rape should be increased.

 

Till this law is enacted these social activists should not call-off this agitation in Delhi. 

 

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Tough these two demands (1) and (3) of fast-track courts and increased punishment for rape are being raised by many organization including main opposition party BJP, but they are not serious and not coming on streets (at Jantar Mantar) with agitations and not going to jail. Moreover the talk by Union Government of Judicial Committee and Judicial Commission is unnecessary and talk of fast track courts only for Delhi and not for entire country is no solution to this problem

 

Regarding demand (2) of 'Expenses for these fast track courts to be born by Union of India' no body is raising this demand. Gen VKS should raise this demand too specifically because without this provision any anti – rape law will be meaningless. This demand may include the following details::-

 

(i)- There should be Reserve of Magistrates and Session Judges in every State, who shall be moved in States as per requirement at lower court and session court and who will try only the cases of rape in fast track courts. 

 

(ii)- Concerned High Court of the State shall depute these Magistrates and Session Judges in Subordinate Courts in the State where ever trial of rape cases is to be undertaken.

 

(iii)- Similarly in High Court and Supreme Court there should be separate Bench for trying rape cases in fast track courts.

 

(iv)- Expenses of these fast track Courts (at Lower, Session, High Court and Supreme Court Levels), of their establishment (staff, furniture, paperwork, building etc) and of their Presiding Officers should be born by Government of India.

 

If your goodness (and other Veterans) may talk to Gen VKS (directly or through some of his friends, colleagues etc, if he is in judicial custody), in order to persuade VKS to raise said three demands and continue to agitate at Jantar Mantar till these three demands are met, then it will go a long way in bringing satisfaction to Gen VKS (who has even gone to jail for this cause) and also to his friends and colleagues (including Veterans) and to the people of India that the arrest and jailing of Ex - Army Chief General VKS has not gone in vain.

 

But for this VKS will have to mobilize all the social activists (India Against Corruption, Baba Ramdev, Kejariwal, Jago Party etc) and should bring all these & other agitators under his one command (which will stop disorganized & unruly nature of present agitation) and should constrain the Government of India to concede all the three above-mentioned demands  

 

Regards 

 

Hem Raj Jain