We are increasingly faced
With this question seminal:
Is our Criminal Law meant
Only to assist the criminal?
Just to get a conviction
Is an arduous, uphill task
If you peruse the statistics
No need to research or ask
So very often witnesses
Can’t forget what they saw
But turn hostile out of fear
Without protection of law
Everything seems tailored
For fairness to the criminal
Imprisonment is a vacation
For any convict who’s political
If they get incarcerated
Despite doling big dough
They avail of every benefit
Such as parole and furlough
Witness the cushy life of some
Convicted of heinous crimes
It wasn’t meant to be like this
But these are different times
The entire system conspires
To get favoured guilty out
If not by legal hook or crook
Then by strategem and clout
If by victims tears and fears
Thirst of powers is not sated
By garlanding killers & rapists
The “rule of law” is felicitated!
