I
had never thought during my 31 years of life that I shall address you from the jail.
It is the 5th day of my jail period in Ghazipur UP. The 4 days experience of
women cell of jail is much more lessoning. It is the learning about the country
and about me too.
Reading
the experiment with the truth by Gandhi these learnings become more condensed.
I see that the changing of rulers does not much change the rule if the
intention of rulers did not change. This thing is not being said for a party or
in connection with the government.
Arresting
of 10 onfoot-journeymen including even a journalist are jailed shows what type
of ruler's intention are eventually? If our onfoot journey may endanger
breaching of peace in the state or the country,
should not there have considered over this question how much weak is the
peace of the state?
More
than 40 women are in the two barracks in the jail while mere 6 prisoners can
accommodate in a barrack. Even the officer of this jail accepts that there is
the shortage of amenities. Maximum women are in captivity of dowry harassment
cases. Even a few of them are those whose cases are under trial for the past
five years, but there is no decision yet. Five years kept in jail, without
being a culprit? Unless the crime is proved, they all are not culprit. If let
the captive by the court are acquitted declaring them innocents, who will
return them their five precious years?
A
few of the women are here, whose bail have been granted; but none are who file
their bail-bond. Whose responsibility is of these? Is it of none? You will see such India inside
the jail which is extremely helpless. These women see me with full of
expectation.They seem that I shall do something better for them. They say just
as you are kept in jail without an offence we all are here. If a woman is
telling the truth, it is the unsuccess of our justice system.
You
all are well familiar with the tardy justice system, but this motionless
affects how them, they can understand much how violent and inhuman are this.
There
is the need to work on the cases of daughter-in-laws to be killed or committing
suicide especially.
There
is the need of exact counseling. Becoming no mutual harmony among the families
can carry them on which verge.
6
of a family members are in jail; one of them lost his life. The little children
loss their future and the hefty fees are to be given to the lawyers; mostly
non education and lack of knowledge creates the odd conditions. The lawyers, the
police and the employees are not trained in this way that the justice should be
delivered earliest in the least damages and the things should be dealt by the
mediation.
Gandhi
writes about his lesson learnt from his first case in Pritoria: ‘I learnt the
true advocacy; learnt to extract bright side of human behavior; learnt to go in
the heart of human.I could know that the counsel’s duty is to fill the ditch
between Furican. This lesson deepen a root in my inner self that the maximum
time period of my 20 years advocacy profession passed in my office to conciliate
the hundreds of cases. I lost nothing in it—mere money was in deficit that
cannot be said, but not lost the spirit."
Our
advocates, officers and the employees working in the administration all have
the need to learn from this. An incident of yesterday is to mention here. Mr
Afzal Ansari, MP of this constituency, came to meet Satyagrahi. Women prison
cell barrack was also messaged that he would go there. All the women of barrack
in the terse abusive language were ordered that the cloths were being dryered
hanging on pegged woods in the craters between the bricks of walls should be
removed immediately; my cloths were too there. There were no system of cloth
drying. My cloths too were removed, but the MP did not come inside. I was taken
to the police superintendent office to meet with them. Mr MP lodged the
objection to accommodates me in this way like other captives. He instructed him
to provide the amenities separately. He sends all the bed stuff for me from
outside, but what for other prisoners?
No
amenities are available in the barracks. There is no bathroom to bathe in 12-A.
you can bathe in open. The stuff that is brought to the captives’ home from
their closeone, or their cloths in plastic bags are supported by hanging on
pegs in the wall. There is no almirah or lockers. There is no breakfast daily
morning. the two buns and the grams each interval of two days in a week and
remaining other days provision are tea.
Such
type of muddle I thinks to be in the maximum jails. One more problem what I am
able to see here is that is the conversation. There is no quick transit of
communication to the captives waiting the bail or other information in the
jail. Next day, unless the family members does not reach to them, they swing in
the pool of hope and doubts; weeps. I feels this time a big need to reform in
the jail improvement and the judicial systems.
