This refers to the latest
very hot news in the entire Goan media on the topic of the 500 + years sentence
imposed on two Goans in Dubai, one was the owner of the company and the other
is the 25 year old employee from Siolim.
With due respect to the
Dubai Judiciary, unfortunately for passing such a lofty sentence on the youthful
25 year old employee of Exential Co., accusing him of collaborating with the
top boss of the company in duping the customers, I like to comment as follows
based on my layman logic.
In fact, the young boy
Mr. Rayan was promoted to the post of senior accountant just 4 months before he
was arrested and in view of this how an employee with 4 months of experience in
this field can have access to the minute confidential information of the
company? Secondly, Rayan was not in the management segment, the boss is the
management who should be aware of
everything and if anybody is to be held responsible it sould be the person who decides the
company’s decisions and not Rayan who is very small man in the company hierarchy.
I can rightly vouch for
the innocence of Rayan in this matter, he was either intentionally implicated
or forced to confess what he has not done by using unethical, uncivilized, un-Islamic
and anti-islamic methods. These crude and stone age harsh methods are normally
used by the Gulf countries to extort confession from the accused and having no option
the accused surrenders by accepting what he has not done. I don’t think Islam
approves such cruel treatment especially when Prophet Mohammed himself ordered
the release of the Jews caught in the war instead of meting out inhuman
treatment to them, as expected by their captors. If the methods used to extort the confession
from Rayan are wrong then it will be an unIslamic act promoted in the Islamic country
by the Islamic Judiciary which is surely going against their Islamic principles
and doctrine.
It is my right as per
the Islamic doctrine to fight for the rights of Rayan when I feel he is
innocent. When we raise his issue for
justice then we are fighting for justice for him in the name of Islam by
quoting Prophet Mohamed as mentioned below:
When Prophet Mohammed was
asked once, “when there will be justice in this world?” Replied Prophet
immediately saying “When everyone of us will gather courage to fight against
the injustice committed on to others as if that injustice is committed on to us
only, then and then only there will be justice in this world” concluded the
Prophet.
Dubai in UAE is an
Islamic country and being so it is a member of Oganisation of Islamic
Conference and as such it is governed also by the Shariat Laws which gives
ample of freedom for the accused to
defend himself. However, some member
countries flout these rules as done earlier by Iraq under Saddam Hussein and
Iran under Ayatollya Khomeini resulting in delivering of harsh punishment to
the accused wherein even the Advocate of the accused found playing the role of
a conspirator. This was done in Kuwait when Francis Araujo from Kalafura was
sentenced for gallows in early 1990.
Some of the Advocates in the Gulf countries are unreliable who are
treating Indian clients with total irresponsibility and negligence.
Hence, those supporting
Rayan must hire a new and competent lawyer who will be faithful to his client
and fight this case all over again. I have no trust in the verdicts delivered
by the Islamic Courts. Hence, it is imperative that this particular case has to
be brought for review otherwise innocent Rayan will die a miserable death. And
if one innocent Rayan goes, what matters to them? After all Rayan however innocent he may be
but in the eyes of Gulf Arabs who man the Dubai Judiciary, is just a Hindi
Muskin. This tag must not be allowed to
apply to Rayan.
A.Veroica Ferandes.
