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Rich & powerful arent punished enough: SC
Terming light sentences being awarded in road accident cases as \"mockery of justice\", Supreme Court on Monday asked lawmakers to \"scrutinise, re-look and re-visit\" the penal laws saying the poor\'s life was as worth living as that of the rich. The comments of the apex court came as a court in Mumbai was in the middle of a trial of actor Salman Khan on charges of culpable homicide.
Drivers feel they are the emperors of all they survey
New Delhi: Terming light sentences being awarded in road accident cases as "mockery of justice", Supreme Court on Monday asked lawmakers to "scrutinise, re-look and re-visit" the penal laws saying the poor's life was as worth living as that of the rich. The comments of the apex court came as a court in Mumbai was in the middle of a trial of actor Salman Khan on charges of culpable homicide.
The 49-year-old is accused of drinking and driving his SUV and running over people sleeping on a pavement in Mumbai on September 28, 2002. His driver appeared on Monday in court and said he was the one behind the wheels. "We are compelled to observe that India has a disreputable record of road accidents. There is a non-challant attitude among the drivers. They feel that they are the 'Emperors' of all they survey. Drunkenness contributes to careless driving where other people become their prey.
"The poor feel that their lives are not safe, the pedestrians think of uncertainty and the civilised persons drive in constant fear but still apprehensive about the obnoxious attitude of the people who project themselves as 'larger than life'," a bench of justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C Pant said.
"Life to the poor or the impecunious is as worth living for as it is to rich and the luxuriously temperamental...," the bench said, adding, "we are bound to observe that the lawmakers should scrutinise, re-look and re-visit the sentencing policy in Section 304A, IPC. We say so with immense anguish." Section 304A of the IPC deals with the offence of causing death by rash and negligent act and provides for imprisonment for maximum of two years or fine or both.
