Saturday, August 29, 2009


A moral lesson should be drawn from Muthoot Paul M George incident
By O J George
The murder of Muthoot Paul M George, allegedly in a premeditated quotation killing act, is gruesome and that is unbearable for the family of the deceased.

A common man who has come across the news of the cowardly act does feel a sense of loss. One can, then, imagine the sense of loss of the family, to whom he was a scion.

All the same, the circumstances which led to the tragic and horrible end should be an eye-opener to those who retain goons to achieve their ends.

Criminals are there for fleecing the retainer as much as they can. They have no love left for those who pay up money for them. It is an issue of one rupee more for them from a different customer.

There is another dimension to the tendency to rope in gangs, which feel eulogized for getting things done in an illegal way. They think themselves the most powerful. If they have political power with them, they are definitely the kings.

The politicians who use them cannot go against them, for their previous wrong-doings would come to the fore, once they go against the very gangs which worked for them.

When business houses and enterprises get things done the quick and mortal way, the legal and constitutional realm gets eroded. Who will go to courts if people can get things done with the help of a few goons, and that too quite quickly.

This also calls for speedy dispensation of justice, otherwise even the judges and the jury will lose their importance.

Political parties should make a decision. Maybe they can win temporarily using goons for a purpose, but the practice will recoil on them one time or the other.

The incidents like the murder of Muthoot Paul M George should come out with all its details so that this would act as a moral lesson for the society.

I salute those who exposed the murder of BJP leader Pramod Mahajan, involvement of his son Rahul Mahajan in drug incidents, the death of the private secretary of Pramod Mahajan in drug consumption, the break-up of the marriage of Rahul Mahajan because of his drug abuse habit and the like.

This acted as a moral lesson and the BJP did not suffer anything on account of the expose.

Business tycoons, industrial houses and big fish should not hobnob with goons. They can very well establish a security set-up in a genuine way. When thousands of trained ex-servicemen and others are available in the country, why should they go after goons?

Perhaps the government should come to the aid of private business houses and tycoons in setting up efficient security regimen.


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