Don’t be compromised

By ZAHID H JAVALI

Stop making excuses and taking sides. I would say this to everyone who wants to side with the ‘victim’ who has committed a crime. Perhaps, they are not murderers but white collar criminals, or might have just violated certain bans stipulated by either the government or the courts. They are criminals nonetheless.

When justice prevails, there is no religion or socio-economic background that one must consider. Justice should be swift and sure. But has it ever been the case? Only a few hapless people get punished while the rest escape. Take the storm water drain demolitions that began under the regime of chief minister Siddaramiah. They kept saying that there were not enough field officers to execute their demolitions after their initial rounds.

Clearly, there were vested interests that stopped this from happening. However, a lesson needs to be learnt from here. You might be the high and mighty or a hapless middle class household. If you are violating any law, sooner or later, the axe will fall. Know this. Nobody can live in an island anymore. Everyone will have to face the music, if not now, definitely later. This goes for all the landlords who have built residential houses and let it out for commercial use or clogging the neighbourhood with their cars and two wheelers for not building an adequate parking lot underground.

I stopped my neighbour from constructing two 1BHK units on each floor for three floors. Where is the parking for all the houses and can the garbage generated by them be properly managed? “It doesn’t work out if I do that,” he said. And I said, “Then you shouldn’t have bought the plot. Not next to my house atleast.” However, even if he had bought it elsewhere and built the house, the axe would have fallen later. I saved him from the future shock. You can too. Just follow the law and no harm will come to you.