Justice

Hello everyone! I am back again for another blog post about the book I am reading, "The Association of Small Bombs", by Karan Mahajan. For today's blog, I wanted to talk about something I was pondering about after I read a couple more chapters in the book. In the book, after the bombing in the New Delhi marketplace, the police were desperate to make arrests of the people who were responsible for the bombing. One of the men they took was named Malik, and he was the friend of Shockie, the man who actually made and set off the bomb. From my perspective, Malik was not a bad man. He happened to be the friend of the man who actually set the bomb off, but he really did not have anything to do with the blast. The police took him without telling him what he had done, but he quickly realized he was being taken to "India as a suspect for the bombing." (Mahajan) As I thought about how poor Malik was going to be punished for something he didn't do, I wondered about how many people had the police done this to prior. The police probably have to hear many cries regarding finding the suspects from victim's families, such as the Khurana's. I feel like that they want to catch the suspects as fast as possible, so they can let the victims families have satisfaction that the killers have been brought to justice. But should the police take people who haven't done anything wrong and punish them for others wrongdoings just to make families happy?

I understand the police are doing this to give satisfaction to the victims families, but I don't think that innocent people should suffer. Sadly, we see many kinds of stories like this around the world, not just in India. Even in America, there have been many cases where the innocent have to spend years in jail. Even though these cases were most likely by accident, it is still such a terrible situation, as people would lose years of their life. Hopefully, as years go by, these cases in India and the rest of the world are going down, and the only people who are jailed are the ones that committed the crime. Well, that's all for today. I will be back soon as I find more stuff to blog about regarding my book. Bye!