White ants 'ate' 24 kg charas: Prosecution tell court Humans over the period of evolution finally set up courts to deliver justice and punish the guilty, but men in all his wisdom says “innocent till proven guilty” for this men came up with the judiciary, where the judge is the arbitrator of justice, sometimes helped by a nominated jury, so far so good, but what comes next has often made a mockery of our renowned system of justice.
In any court case, there is always the transgressed and the transgressor, whereby one of the two has to be guilty, but the irony of our justice system is, both swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and yet one of them is lying and to complicate it even further we have two guys in black coats knowingly or unknowingly trying to prove the other wrong or guilty. From personal experience I know a lot of innocent people have been proved guilty or a lot of guilty people have been acquitted of their transgressions. As far as I am concerned I would prefer a solution outside the court any given day. Our justice system has been hijacked by the brilliance and manipulative powers of some of the men in black coats called Lawyers. Are they a blessing or a curse on humanity ?
If my memory serves me right, the case of the old Zuari bridge where one of the pillars of the bridge was knocked down by a barge, the owner of the barge won the case saying that the unstable pillar fell on his barge, and was paid compensation for the damage to his barge, is that what really happened ?
Here is another case of the vanishing drugs, the lawyer for the defendants claiming that the drugs were devoured by an army of white ants, incredible ants and even more incredible lawyer. First and foremost, where these drugs kept in a mud house or a secure cemented and concrete structure ? Why is it, nobody noticed the receding amount of drugs ? I am sure, all those drugs could not have been consumed by the ants in a jiffy. So who is selling the cock and the bull story and the important factor is, who is buying it ?
When asked about the drugs imbroglio in Goa, our Home Minister Mr. Ravi Naik, not so long ago proclaimed in public that there were no drugs in Goa, is now finally convinced that it is not so and is trying to assure Goans, that he will get to the bottom of this issue and punish the guilty, I won’t be surprise if this issue turns out to be a bottomless pit like many others, wherein he could never reach the bottom, it just occurred to me, could these white ants be domesticated and trained by our politicians ? Today in Goa our politicians are capable of doing anything !
It would be most appropriate to put up boards around the parameters of the said drug storage facility warning people, to beware of any “zombie” white ants, highly contaminated, dangerous and armed with potent drugs, in the vicinity and to report any suspicious acts by any other reptiles in the vicinity to the nearest police station or the court in the area.
Zombie white ants, God Almighty !! What next !!
Freddy Agnelo Fernandes,
Dubai - UAE.
