Originally posted by: Clochette
K.Universe, you're right in stating that I most probably would never have gotten to know Mr. Wankhede without what he helped doing to Aryan Khan (who is in no way my idol) and thus also helping to malign the father and giving unwarranted grief to the family.
However, I'm very much aware of the corruption that (unfortunately) is still reigning in the governmental institutions...
As for the subject of education, I think you misunderstood (maybe I wasn't clear enough). If one is educated by a dishonest father there is a lot of probability that oneself tends to get a weakness for bending rules, especially in a position of power.
No, I don't think that being innocent until proven guilty should apply to Mr. Wankhede as he did not apply it to Aryan (neither did the respective first court). I even got the impression through all my reading about the judiciary in India that this thought is in a sorry state. But this is a problem in far too many countries and with far too many people.
Without knowing Mr. Wankhede I can still assert that he did something wrong in Aryan's case. What I don't know is, if he did it because he was told by more powerful people to do so and then messed up because Aryan was innocent. Therefore he inversed the assumption into "being guilty until proven innocent".
As I have no idol, I have no interest in making someone "spotless" (or "more spotless"), even not someone I love. Nobody is perfect, that's for sure. But I vehemently dislike it when people in powerful positions misuse their power, be it in a family, in a village, in school, in an office, in an enterprise, in the filmindustry, in a governmental institution, in whatever...
You definitely make some reasonable points and there are some aphorisms ("I dislike people abusing power", "I hate corruption") that no one would dispute.
As for why Khan didn't get bail, there are some special laws such as Drugs and Cosmetics Act, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act etc., which impose "twin conditions" of bail. Basically what this boils down to is that bail cannot be granted to the accused unless the public prosecutor has been given the chance to oppose the bail plea and the judge has reasonable grounds to believe that the accused is not guilty of the alleged offense. Again, these special laws are applicable in special circumstances involving drugs, terrorism etc., so what happened was not unlawful. And if you suspect foul play, I am not sure why you are irate at Wankhede and not at the judge. It was the judge who denied bail. Seems like a misplaced anger to me.
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