Recently a hospital in UP was in news. It seems like they transfused a patient with sweet lime juice instead of giving him platelets. This news went viral after the patient in question died. Everybody was sharing the story on social media.
After the news went viral, the authorities woke up and sealed the private hospital where this incident had taken place. But investigation into the event showed that it was not sweet lime juice that had been transfused but a poor quality pouch of platelets that was the culprit.
The district administration found some other irregularities with the hospital and has decided to pull it own using a bulldozer.
In UP, pulling down structures belonging to alleged violators of law has become the norm. It is delivery of summary justice without any order for the courts that should be worrying the citizens. And it should be worrying the judiciary too. Their powers and domain is being challenged by such summary delivery of justice. It is a very dangerous trend. Without any fit and proper investigation, entire houses and business establishments belonging to citizens have been razed to the ground. Homes that stood for many decades, which had all the necessary documents to prove that they were legal have been pulled down and destroyed. Once the act is done, the affected party can go to court but the deed is done, the courts too are not taking any decision in a hurry.
Then one day, our Supreme Court will wake up and ask the question, ‘How did we get here on hate, when the country is a secular country?’ kind of question. But that will be too late for those whose lives have been destroyed by this delivery of summary justice.
So enamored are some of the supporters of this summary justice that they made the bulldozer part of India’s independence day parade in US! But there was a severe backlash and the local community had to castigate those who made the bulldozer, the symbol of summary justice, part of the independence celebrations.
