Law, order, discipline and its enforcement in society
Laws are the aggregate of rules representing is the collective wisdom of
community and therefore applied universally according to the circumstances and
conditions and requirement of the nation universally for the common human benefit
of people's welfare and therefore made applicable for the strict enforcement of
justice with the changing requirement and sanctity of the rule of law. Doubt perishes the man while apathy to a
particular situation ruin the civilisation.
Law in order to satisfy the needs of fast changing society has to be
evolved in order to meet out the challenges instead of remaining static. Thus the judicial thinking to be constructed
by reference which would adequately deal with the new problems and therefore we
no longer need the crutches of foreign legal system. It has to be secured through the process of
law. The collective interest of the
community so that parties do not lose faith in the institution and thereby
indulge in private retribution is the prime objective of the legal order. The procedural safeguards should commensurate
with the sweep of power. The wider the
power, the greater the need for restraint in its exercise and correspondingly,
more liberal the construction of procedural safeguards envisaged by the statute
.
An independent and honest judiciary is sine qua non for rule of
law. It is imperative to protect the
honest officers from motivated misconceived
complaints made by unscrupulous litigants while on the other hand infallibility is an
unreliable ideals, correctness is often a matter of opinion. Thus ability to anticipate the fallibility is
the gift of a prophecy consideration of finality are subject to the paramount of justice but the
remedial action must be appropriate upon which the administration of justice
may rest. Thus the law can not afford
any favourite other than truth. Life of
law is not logic; it has been experienced however logic may not be ignored when experience is silent.
There has been erosion of faith in the dignity of the court and in the
majesty of the law. The procedural
wrangle is eroding the faith in our judicial system and one must introvert turn
the search light over the process of deterioration inwardly. Therefore, the law must be definite and such
as basic postulate is the requirements
of the consistency in judicial decision making process and at the same time,
there is the need for foreign flexibility. No straight jacket formula can be
laid down for judicial functioning. The
concept of public accountability of the judicial system and the professional
competency with ability to promote the justice is perhaps overdue and the
courts are ill equipped to speculate and seldom at contrary to democratic
principles. Values in public life have
undergone serious erosion during last few decades what was unheard is a common
talk of the day. The new value
orientation has undergone in our culture and we are at the threshold of the
cross roads of these values. This is a
difficult situation.
One makes Law legal only by giving its operation . The consent of one's
conscience. A moral obligation to
disobey is not less compelling merely because an individual is powerless and
that his disobedience may lead to
punishment through powerful despotic monarch.
It is always electoral of pre-medication to adopt justice as synonymous
to law, which may be the command of the stranger, but the humanity and
conscience will always be prone to launch a protest through expression against
such command of law who has no sanctity of justice behind it. The problem of obedience of unjust law is the
root cause for a right to right to rebellion and delicate balance is being
observed in the history of civilisation.
The position of soldier under section 41 of the Army Act, 1950 as making
disobedience to unjust immoral offence is in practice difficult to tackle as
being liable to be shot at by a court martial and if he disobeys to be hanged by a judge. There is a concurrent conflicting demands of
choosing either of the two. The
discipline and of supremacy of law. It
is difficult to examine and being aware of a illegality of the order and
therefore law contrives an objective test. The
Nuremberg
trial has further declared that Nazis law and order of dictator must confirm to
minimum morality. If it does not stand
this test, the disobedience to unjust command will not often the discipline and
rule of law will prevail.
Resistance to oppression is the consequence of other rights. When the government violates the rights of
the people, insurrection for the people
and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of all rights and the most
indispensable of all duties. Abraham Lincon’s famous slogan “Government for the
people ,by the people and of the people means that the people can exercise their
constitutional rights and revolutionary rights to dismember and overthrow the
government. Thus rebellion to tyrants is
obedience to God. Whenever any
government becomes destructive of certain
inalienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, the people
have the right to alter or abolish it.
The abuses and usurpation design to reduce the existence of the
individual and to act like absolute despotism, it is the right and the duty to
throw of such government and provide security to the citizens.
The rebellion against government is further justified when the majority
of the people are oppressed by a despotic minority and then it becomes a moral
duty of men who love liberty not to permit any moral rights to rebel against
the majority. Practice of non-violent
methods of rebellion as a means to end tyranny
has been justified by our founder
father but tyranny which makes reforms impossible is difficult to be tackled
down and in that situation only the public opinion can safeguard the interest
of the society. The obligation to obey the law is always linked with the
question of justification for the natural outburst with the right
to revolution. The ultimate
raison de etre for you social discipline is reconcile apparently with
conflicting claim of liberty and law.
The justification to obey the law through civil disobedience involves
conscious disapproval of government's action.
The other factor of disobedience is through non-enforcement of the sovereign power of
imposition of tax law and when ever the protest has the justification for not
agreeable as unable to conscience to obey
it. The peace and tranquillity of
the realm is always supreme as such violent emotion is unwarranted by moral law
.Socrates, who searched into things
under the earth and in heaven and therefore the youth refused to hold his
tongue and prepared that as he realised that law applies with equal force to
all to maintain ordered society and in
order to resist against. Unjust law are
must not to being afraid of being incurred in punishment for disobedience, if
his conscience permit him to do so.
Recent events have revealed the damage of letting ashore on body
politics to fester for to long, the solution must be consistent with
the unity of the country and national interest and not on as can result in
claim of reaction detrimental to those interest. Despite the enduring the
assurance by every political party in the parliamentary democracy for country’s
stability progress and radical reform, there is a complete social disruption.
Sometime there is ideological compatibility due to personality cult and dynasty
rule over primitive society but when there starts inherent contradictions and
ego concentric personality clashes, the country stability ,progress and radical
reform comes to ignominiously halt. Socialism is to social justice , what
ritual is to religion and Dogma is to the truth. Our present politicians has imposed so called
mindless sociological arrangement on the nation under the garb of socialism which has held in thrall the people
endeavour and enterprise resulting in the transfer of wealth from the
honest to dishonest opportunist, merit
to the demerit; quality with the
quantity and justice with injustice in the guise of giving social
protection. This is the reason that 231
public-sector enterprises run by Union government and 636 by the state government of extracting the material
resources from public exchequer realising exorbitant price from India's
doctrines socialism. If the politicians
are actually concerned and they should have provided the financial security to
the backward classes as to enable them to survive by distribution of resources
with a logical distributive justice.
There is only quantitative growth without quantitative developments. The influential
politicians who preferred to let socialism remain the opiate the people and
of whom it can be truly said that if the ignorance is the bliss they
should be happiest men alive. Gandhi ji
said “Economics that hurts the moral well-being of individuals or nation is
immoral and therefore, sinful .True economics never militate against highest
ethical standards, just as all true ethics to be worth of its name just at the same be also good
economics. An economics that inculcates
worship and enables the strong, to mass wealth
of the expenses of the weak is a false and dismal science. It spell death true economics on the other hand stands for social
justice, it promotes the good of all equally including the weakest and is
indispensable for decent life. Gandhi ji
told “I do not believe that multiplication of wants and machinery and contrives
to supply them is taking the world
single step nearer its goal ……a
wholeheartedly detests with. This met
desire to destroy the distance and time, to increase animal appetites and go to
the ends of the earth in the search of their satisfaction. If modern civilisation stands for all this
and I have understood to do so I call it Satanic” .
“A civilisation, in real sense of the term consists not in the multiplication but in deliberate
and voluntary reduction of wants. “Industrialisation on a mast scale would
necessarily lead to passive or active exploitation of the villagers as a problem of corruption and
marketing come in. Nothing should be
allowed to be produced by the cities which can equally well be produced by
villagers. The proper function of the
cities is to serve as clearing houses for village products. Here are more hands
than required for the work and therefore the problem is how to utilise the idle
hours, they will render unemployed. The
concentration of production and distribution in few hands privilege
oriented monopoly. The
industrialisation must not deprive people from environment, must but must in
village artisan to reduce his drudgery and improve his efficiency”.
This is the answer to
the concentration industrialisation in the cities having no air to
breathe at Delhi 460 S.P.M level ,Calcutta 460 S.P.M level 350 S.P.M level
each. Justice H.R. Khanna, when
appointed as commission of inquiry in the year 1967 in respect of the matter
relating to the charge of corruption
against the minister’s of Orrisa
including three Chief ministers, one of whom was Biju Patnaik while dealing
with 70 charges of corruption levelled against them, was faced a situation
dealing with the arguments advanced on behalf of two ex chief ministers, that
there was no prescribed code of conduct for the ministers to held them guilty
of impropriety, that ministers cannot use their officer or allow them to be
used for furthering the business interest of his family members to have
commercial dealing with the State as they themselves never passed orders in
respect of such transactions. Justice
Khanna observed that a person on being a minister becomes the custodian of the public interest. Thus he should so formulate his politics and his activities
that there is no possibility of the clash between his personal interest and the
public interest. The role of minister
has got to be that of pioneer rather
than a pirate, of the public to sentinel
rather than of self seeks of one dedicated to the public cause
and not one obsessed with the desire of personal gain -- -- what is needed is a climate of strong public
opinion where in none may dare to
deviate from the path of rectitude . Law
can punish only occasional lapses
quoting a classic passage of judge hand. “ I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon our constitution,
upon laws and upon courts. These are
false hopes liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there no constitution, no law,
no court can do much is to help it while it lies that it needs no constitution,
no law ,no court ", to save it. The
question is whether the laws speaking through the authority of the courts
to deal with such threat to the security of the state, shall be absolutely
silenced and reduced mute spectator because of such threat. The answer has to be given to the
public. A raise weary of its own blood
shed and diversities should cultivate public opinion which may offer the only
chance for the survival of the species.
The best guarantee for such situation is good sense of those in power,
the vigilance of the people and the pressure of the public opinion.
This is an alarming situation
which spell out the gravity and further invite peoples co-ordination to
formulate public opinion to fight through the policy of non- co-operation which
has provided the independence from the British rule by our leader Mahatma
Gandhi .
“Every day that comes and goes,
every mile the river flows,
says to me and say to you,
much there is to learn and do,
for the water and the day,
noise more will pass this way”.
Mankind has a habit of surviving worst catastrophes created by its own error or by violent turn of the nature and it must be so if there
is any meaning in its existence, if its history and continuous survival is not
the accident of a fortuitously self
organising chance which it must be a
purely materialistic view of the nature of the world. If man intended to survive and carry forward
the evolution of which he is at present the head and to some extent of half conscience leader
of its march , he must come out of this
present chaotic life and arrive at the
organised efforts. The ideal situation
would be fulfilled by the accomplishment and preservation of the people from
its own extinction by the folly committed by his own species.
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