The Travesty of Judicial System in case of Quattrocchi(by amogh pathak)

The Quattrocchi saga is a blot on the Congress led UPA government--which it cannot wash away. I don’t recollect any incident where the government has actually went out of the way to save any individual (of course there was a selfish motive though).The dropping of the cases against Q was bound to happen .First it was the defreezing of Quattrocchi’s accounts. Second the govt. facilitated the withdrawing of Interpol’s red corner notice. Third it gave the final clean chit to the Italian corrupt fraudmaster ‘Q’ by dropping all charges against him. In this whole saga what comes through is the proximity of Mr. Quattrocchi to 10, Janpath. The sum alleged may be small as compared to the huge corruption that prevails in the Indian political arena. But the way it was done and the underhand methods used so blatantly to get Quattrocchi walk free is something which cannot be easily explained off.

The questions that actually aghast me are :- Why was the UPA government under Mrs Sonia Gandhi so keen on freeing ‘Q’? What is the relationship of ‘Q’ to the first family? Why did the law minister sent an envoy to the UK to defreeze his account keeping the PM in the dark? Why was Quattrocchi not extradited from Malaysia, when the Central government did say that it was a fit case for extradition? Why did the then Solicitor General Mr. Gopal Subramanium withdrew case against Italian Businessmen Ottavio Quattrocchi when CBI had once suggested a strong case existed? What happened between then-with a strong case in existence?

I think it all started when Margaret Alva was the Minister in charge of Personnel, the Congress allowed Quattrocchi to sneak out of the country? 64 crores may be peanuts for the ministers and the first family- the fact remains that the Congress strongly helped the fleeing and then the freeing of Mr. ‘Q’. If there was no case then why had ‘Q’ not appeared for the questions, faced the charges and cleared himself? Instead he was running as a refugee from country to country. The role of Congress is surely a suspect. It has brought disgrace and disrepute to the country and its investigation agencies and made a farce of our whole justice system.

All the big tamasha of sleeping in a dalit’s house and sharing a night meal with them, travelling in local trains in Mumbai etc. is big propaganda for Rahul. This is sheer hypocrisy. If the Congress and Rahul really feels the plight of the poorest of the poor then I think Mr. Rahul is smart enough to understand that one night’s dinner is not gonna suffice the cause. You really require people like Baba Amte, Amritanandamayi Devi, Mother Teressa etc. to actually bring a real change. It takes a lot of courage to fight corruption because corruption is the root cause for all the ills. Is one night stay of Mr. Rahul Gandhi going to actually eradicate the poverty of the poor people? If really Rahul and his mother believe in eradication of poverty then Quatrrocchi’s case should have been different.

At the end I would say it is not the 64 crores but the message that they will go upto any level to save people who are close to them; the government led by Mrs Sonia Gandhi will not hesitate to make a farce of this whole judicial system and block its process.

“JAI HIND, JAI MAHARASHTRA”