Editorial
Withdrawing politically motivated cases
Stop the bad practice
Reviewing the so-called politically motivated cases to recommend withdrawal of charges against criminals is itself a bad practice. Worse still, for clearing some 30 such cases, the national committee for the task has even bypassed the mandatory provision that district committees concerned would first select the cases before forwarding those to it. This has made the move even more questionable.
Regrettably, through the process, the government is in practice politicising the rule of law as well as circumventing its due procedure.
We do not discount that some of the cases might have really been lodged out of political intent by the erstwhile government. Unfortunately, this has become a common practice during all the political governments. And what is being lost sight of through this is that they are doing more wrong in the name of righting a wrong.
Recently, cases have been recommended involving persons who are accused in several murder cases and many of them do not even belong to the ruling party. Such recommendations compel us to speculate that a good deal of money may have changed hands.
This should not happen, and we urge that good sense would prevail, because such actions hit at the very fundamentals of governance by the rule of law. Unless the government stays away from such practice, it may ultimately come back to haunt it.
Should the government decide to go ahead with its decision it can be only at the cost of whatever is left of its image.
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