Shiv Sena with an entourage of some 40 so called party workers (or goons?) ransacked the house and office of a lawyer, Mukesh Deshmukh.

Mukesh who? Supposedly a lesser known lawyer in criminal law with some 10-12 years experience.

Why was his house and office ransacked? Because Mukesh agreed to fight the case for Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist.

Agreed, Kasab is a criminal. There is enough and more proof that he has committed the crime and he might be languishing the rest of his life in Indian jails or be hanged to death. No one is denying that.

But then – Don’t criminals in India get a lawyer to defend? How unconstitutional is that? Is it not a fundamental right of everyone to get a lawyer?

And by the way, who is Shiv Sena to take the law into its hands? What do they think of themselves – Above the law??? That everything they do, every action of theirs is legitimate and godly?

Absolutely ridiculous. This has to stop.

No political party should be allowed to resort to violence. If they are resorting to violence, then they are no better than terrorists who created havoc in Mumbai. At the end of the day, both of them have committed crime that led to destruction of lives, property etc. So why differ?

Where is the Home Minister? Why doesn’t he make statements which condemn these kinds of attacks on the law-abiding citizens of the country? And why are there no laws to punish these demons of mass destructions?

The leaders of Shiv Sena still think that it has done the right thing by ransacking the lawyer, his house and his office. How audacious is that?

Must I ask where they were when Mumbai was burning ?

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