It happens in legal world all over world.
Legal issue may be very small and trival. But if some VIP has got entangled, it it has an angle in media, if it has capacity to invoke raw curiosity of masses, everything is blow out of proportion.
V. V. I. P. Lawyers enter in the picture. Things get even more complicated and are more blown out of proportion. The presence of a VVIP lawyer itself becomes a problem rather than solution.
Sanity is lost temporarily.
Such appears in the case of Italian Marines.
What has actually happened in this case?
I have no idea. I have not read facts and lengthy legal arguments.
From Helicopter View of Case, it appears that some mariners were on booze.
They shouted and tried to frighten off some fisher men.
Fishermen dared them. Some mariner showed a pistol to them.
This did not frighten fisherman. So bullets flew in air. A fisherman died.
This does not seem to be a case of intentional and premeditated murder.
So application of 302 or life Imprisionment or death, etc etc does not arise at all.
If no VIP were involved, it was a case of 304 part II. Accused could be let off with less than 10 years or only with fine.
But here, a VIP angle was given, media rushed to make out an international news. Tensions were flared up between two nations. Prides of both nations were invoked.
And then came a blunder. Someone tried to settle crime, not knowing that it was not permissible in law in India.
This complicated the whole issue.
VVIP lawyers were engaged. This complicated issue even more.
But then, thank God, at the end of the day sanity prevailed.
There is nothing in the case.... As per my view which is always subject to correction.
Haresh Raichura
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