V for Victory, Two for Injustice

After the sorrowful contemplation for 26 years the verdict of the Bhopal Gas tragedy pronouncing eight as guilty and awarding two years imprisonment to those convicted puts the words of Landor quite appropriate. Here the sufferings endured by the victims better fulfillment of justice. The sign of victory is ironically two fingers raised vertically and here the two years symbolize the paradox on the magnitude of punishment. With the Law Minister's assertion that Judiciary is not to be blamed, then whom are the victims to blame for this delayed injustice.From culpable homicide to criminal negligence, from Quattrochies to Andersons, India has explicated the real definition of extradition, the result of unethical, undemocratic political manipulation through judicial intervention. Now the hands of Union Carbide are clean for cutting cost at the hands of safety. The hands of the victims seeking mercy at the hands of even handed justice ?