Hey Rich People, do you have money that can buy something that is not for sale? and something you shouldn’t try to buy.
And Hi Powerful, do you have that much power that can place yourselves above the law?
The whole scenario can be easily understood in this way we are driving a car and with us, there are the rich and powerful also driving on the same road with their cars, both driving rashly without a license (which means both are breaking rules). Now comes the police trying to catch us but they succeeded in catching us and the rich and powerful just take off in front of our eyes and we just keep staring at them and can’t do anything. We pay the fine get our punishments and then the police just go off.
We know that the law is enforceable, and everyone is treated the same under the law. But some judgment that was made in our society put all of us into doubt, it raises questions against judges and the court's neutrality when it comes to cases that deal with rich and famous people. The law that makes its decisions and judgment deals with all the cases without being biased and deliver justice for every case that is laid in front of it. But several times it is misjudged and it happens in cases where the wealthy and famous are involved, it seems that rich people enjoy some kind of advantages and get preferences when it comes to a list of cases. Probably, they get a hand or support when they find themselves in a critical situation under any case against themselves which can spoil or can affect their lives.
28% of the UK public surveyed on Inclusive Growth think that in today’s the today rich has got most power in the society. Specifically, the wealthiest have a greater ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events than any other actors, including the government.
When asked about the Future, the result is even more surprising, 34% by 2030 interpreting this survey concluded that the very rich will have the most influence in the public eye. This is more than the 28% of individuals who figured that the legislature will in any case have the most power. Unmistakably, open observations recommend we are well in transit to plutocracy, and here is the place debasement becomes possibly the most important factor.
Why rich peoples enjoy advantages when it comes to judgment? What is the difference between the rich and us that creates discrimination while judging under the same law?
The difference is in the quantity of money, resources, and surplus of different things that they have. Well, it is true that money buys almost everything, but can money buy things that are not for sale? The rich that have money influence other minds and can create such an environment that everyone wants to breathe and live, as everyone is not rich, they try to achieve that so when there is any opportunity that comes in the range of any individual, they try to get it. As to obtain anything we have to provide some input so as to get some output whether the input is in any form doesn’t matter. Rich peoples use this to get an advantage they offer or place various options and opportunities in front of the other person, the person can be a policeman, an officer, a whole department, or even a judge so that they can make money or get something that they want easily with just shake hands with the rich and wealthy, Enjoy the life!!, who cares what the innocents and suffered ones are feeling.
Apart from all, the court has to make judgments that were free from biasing but no, there are many cases that were proved to be wrong. Now let’s talk about some cases related to this fact that serve as an example.
Salman Khan is a well-known actor in the Bollywood industry with eminent cases. Firstly, he killed a blackbuck in 1998, the final judgment got passed in 2018 sentenced to five years of imprisonment, and immediately got bail. Secondly, the hit-and-run case. His car Toyota Land Cruiser breaks into a bakery shop, killing one person and injuring four people. The punishment for killing a person in India is a minimum of 10 years if the murderer has a clean criminal background and 25 years if killed with a firearm So, what just happened with the Salman Khan case? If I killed someone, I find myself inside the bars got beaten up by police and they send me to jail for 10 years. In the case of Salman Khan, there were witnesses who confirmed that they saw Salman Khan driving his car but even with this proof he is freely moving now. The courts find Salman Khan guilty of all charges against him but sentenced him to only five years of imprisonment, got 48 hours of interim relief, and then on the evening of the judgment being passed he got bail and now living a luxurious life.
Another example is Kyle Ticlo, son of Aldona Ticlo, MLA in Goa. Speeding his BWM mows down two sisters in Belagavi, one killed and another heavily injured. He got arrested by the cops which is just a formality to just bring down society's heat for him and then just after one day got bail and now living a luxurious life even with eyewitnesses. They cheated the judicial system and hence they cheated justice and there has to be something to avoid occurring such things. Why he was released, he has to be in jail for 10 years as per written in our laws, accidentally killing a person leads to the imprisonment of 10 years but is it also written that this law is enforceable to everyone except the Rich and Powerful like Kyle Ticlo, Aldona Ticlo, etc?
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There are many cases where middle-class people commit any crime and get their respective punishments and that is absolutely right but what happens to our constitution, and our laws when it comes to the rich and powerful people, are they above the law or the laws are not applicable to them?
The above two are not just only examples there are many other examples where the rich party dominates but the reason, maybe; they get off easily is that they have money to erase evidence, they have money to control the process of investigation that is going on, they influence the other party. There is not always the involvement of a government hand to help the rich hide it from everyone, but the lawyers also play a major role in freeing the guilty party. The rich people can easily afford top lawyers in their region the lawyers know which party is guilty and which is not. The rich people just flow a stream of money into lawyers’ pockets and then lawyers turn to their side even when they are guilty. Lawyers have complete knowledge and information about the justice system, and they know the loopholes of the procedure or say the weak points of the process that can be easily interfered with. Just interfering with the procedure with their minds they got access to everything and then they interpret everything differently and present it differently in front of the courts presenting fake evidence and editing the reports they smartly use the law to defend themselves and hence they freed the guilty people just for the greed of money. Maybe they get a feeling of nostalgia.
It is not only in India where the rich, powerful, and corrupt get special treatment from the government or from the courts and the departments that it was concerned but it was the case almost with every country on this earth. Taking the example of Snoop Dogg, a famous rapper, and music artist. In 1993, Snoop Dogg heard a disturbance outside his apartment. His friend Sean Abrams was arguing with the group of rappers. Snoop Dogg and his bodyguard McKinley Lee went outside his apartment and the argument ended with the dead body of one of the gang members Philip Woldemariam, McKinley and Snoop Dogg both are responsible for firing the shot, Snoop Dogg and his friend were charged with first- and second-degree murder. McKinley was shot from behind and hence means that McKinley is running from them, That indicates Snoop Dogg is involved in the murder, but he was defended and was acquitted after years of court battles. Apart from what is killed McKinley or being involved but he charged with first and second-degree murder, what about this?
Apart from celebrities let’s talk about a famous Politician, Laura Bush who was First Lady of the United States of America during the presidency of her husband George W. Bush from 1995 to 2000. In November of 1963, Laura killed one of her classmates in an accidental death through a car. She proceeded to run a stop sign and in doing that she run through a 17 years old boy, Michael Douglas died at the spot of his injuries. Literally, no charges were filed against her no legal actions were taken against her.
She is the daughter of a wealthy property developer, his father had just flowed the stream of money, asked to leave his daughter, and somehow succeeds with his power of money and she never had to go through any kind of punishment for killing Douglas. Putting a normal citizen in place of Laura Bush, there is no possible way out of this mess without money. Committing to such level of actions he/she will definitely be put behind bars for 8 -12 years with lots of restrictions, and fines additional.
In 2013, a Sentencing Project report noted that “The United States in effect operates two distinct criminal justice system: one for wealthy people and another for poor people and minority.” While the law is hypothetically race and class unbiased , practically speaking access to assets makes incredible variations in how equity is administered in the U.S. Poor people group and poverty stricken litigants are hindered at each phase of the criminal equity process, including: law authorization strategies for example, “stop and search” are utilized intensely in low salary networks of shading, despite the fact that most by far of people ceased by police have carried out no wrong doing; cash safeguard as a state of pretrial discharge results in the detainment of destitute individuals, restricting access to advice and causing family hardship; penniless respondents need to depend on court delegated lawyers, a large number of whom are unpracticed and additionally keep up high caseloads; given the constrained accessibility of freely supported treatment programs, access to such administrations as an option in contrast to imprisonment is significantly more accessible to litigants with family assets to pay charges.
Now take the example of a recent incident in West Bengal, India, the chit fund scam. CBI requested to ask questions to Rajeev Kumar, Chief of Kolkata Police because he was found to be involved in disappearing the 800 crores of public money. Rajiv Kumar is very special to Mamata Banerjee, C.M. of West Bengal, and to her party, Trinamool Congress even though he was suspected of clearing the evidence Mamata Banerjee started a Dharna to defend the officer and asked the supreme court to restrict the CBI interference in this chit fund case. That’s how the rich is being saved by the powerful even though they ate 800 crore rupees of public and now is being far away from the hands of the Central Bureau of Investigation. This time the rich and powerful gets help directly from the government itself on such a large scale. Rich becomes powerful and powerful becomes rich.
The Rich peoples have involvement in the Government and the involvement is increasing day by day. Richer helps the government in various ways, majority of funds for the political parties came through the richer people that and in return for all that support they want many advantages over others. They want the government to protect their back and help them and do whatever they want freely in society.
It can be noticed in all the cases that we have seen and heard in past years there are very rare cases in which it can be concluded that the judgment is not biased, and the decision is being not in favor of the rich people. In the court, the rich seem to have a dominant party and the arguments that were made by the rich get more preference over the other party and are listened to very carefully and thought to be true despite having a weak plot of argument to prove another party wrong.
Well-off individuals are abusing the framework, yet rather can exploit the rights stood to everyone under our arrangement of government to a degree that isn’t accessible to destitute individuals. This happens in the capacity to post safeguard, procure competent protection counsel, exhibit an agreement for option condemning, and different zones. As opposed to scrutinizing their capacity to do as such, we ought to rather hold this up as the standard of equity for all individuals, not only those with methods.
The Rich and Powerful held a special place in eyes of the society and a special place where our system placed them. They deserve a special place but not a place where the hands of laws cannot reach. Our judicial system is very well designed and also implemented properly but just because of few corrupt people sitting inside the government deal with the rich and powerful for some benefit, making us all feel disappointed by our judicial system. The corrupt and guilty will always try to escape from the mess they created and fear of being caught makes them do so it is completely natural like a man sinking in the water doing whatever he can do, moving his arms and legs randomly in any direction fearing to get drowned. In the real-world rich and powerful instead of using arms and legs uses their money and power, and that is absolutely natural for anyone in such a situation to think of going corrupt but is our system’s fault that they think about doing such think. Our judicial system has to think about some new, updated, and secured processes to avoid such processes to happen to stop the rich and powerful. The government has to do something about this and find out how rich and powerful get rid of the law, and those who are enjoying their lives and committed serious crimes should now go to jail as also the others who are helping them from outside and inside of the government. There has to be a law that can keep an eye on the interference of the rich and powerful in government so they cannot get benefits and cheat justice. Those who are involved in messing up with our system should be punished with a huge fine and put behind the bars according to the level of crime they committed. It’s our responsibility to take action against such behavior of the rich and powerful and raise our voices against the exploitation of our judicial system.
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