Courts- a battle ground or a house of justice

Courts in India are, in reality, functioning like a battle ground than the houses of justice because whoever dare to approach the courts for justice will have to arrange for so much of different types of powers(such as the money power to pay lawyer's fee,muscle power to protect your witnesses from getting hostile or threatened by the opposite party,good contact to get the favourable bench of judges,political power to get the law enforcing agencies like police and other concerned government departments to support )to prevail over his/her opponent to get a favourable verdict. What happened in Priyadarshini Mattoo or Jesica Lal's or so many other innumerable cases where the crime was committed by a political,bureaucratic or financial heavyweight and the victim was weaker?Unless the people'support through media propoganda came in,the courts found them helpless in getting the enough evidence to convict the criminal due to the favourable attitude of police towards the perpetrators of the crime.

The proceedings in our courts are most of the time dramatically dependent on the art of the lawyers to manipulate the facts and insert the lies at different stages of the case.As an example we can always see that whenever a big shot is arrested he immediately get sick and instead of going to the lock up he is put in a luxury hospital where he enjoys all the normal facilities.Most of the times the defending lawyers in a criminal case try to defend their clients by falsely representing that the person concerned was not present at the scene of the crime and he or she was away to some other place.If this false representation is successfully rebutted by the opposing side through evidence then only there is a chance of conviction that too after so many other hurdles.This condition embolden the criminals.

We can see that the victory in a case(means a decision in favour irrespective of whether it is just or not)depends on the capability of the lawyer to present the case before the court in such a way that the court is convinced that whatever is being said is true although it may not be true in reality.Lawyers dramatise the law and make it complicated to get it costlier and out of reach of common people so that it can be used as a tool by those who can pay for it.

Actually the law is an instrument to ensure public good and a means to maintain the public tranquility and it must be so simple that every one can understand it ,use it and assist the different agencies to ensure its enforcement.If the laws are simple there is no need of big lawyers,and any one can read and go to the courts for their implementation.But that would be an ideal society and we theoretically want that but not practically because then those who are trying to be oversmart today will become useless and unimportant.

Whenever we face a problem of a crime or any other violation of rules we normally hesitate to go to the courts because we know that court are not there to give automatic justice to the needy but one has to wrestle the decision of the court by using so many tools for it just like a soldier does in a battle field.If one wants to win the decision,whether it is just or not,then one has to apply different means.