Can you bend it like Beckam...
A recent statute passed in Indian Parliament grants 10% reservation for the 'Economically Weaker' section. The eligibility criterion is that the total income of the family should be below Rs. 8 lakhs in a year. A person states thus: His father is earning around Rs. 70 lakhs in a year. His mother is a home-maker (no income!). Suppose his parents get a divorce, and this guy lives with his mother (with no plausible income), will he be eligible for a medical seat under the reservation quota? That is the question posed to a consultant. 'Yes', is the answer. And if the alimony his mother gets in a year should be less than Rs. 8 lakhs. The idea is that, after he gets the medical seat, his parents will re-marry. The 'divorce and re-marriage' idea is only to thwart the statute provision. What a shameful idea!
Whatever be any legislation to help those who really need it, there are people to subvert and take undue advantage of it. They bend any rule to their advantage. They can find very big holes in any law and come through it unscathed. They can bend it like Beckam!
An industrialist had misused the trust of his employees and taken loans in the employees' names with the connivance of the bank manager and usurped all the loan funds. When the bank sent notices to the employees for non-payment of interest in time, the fraud came to light. The personal loans are sanctioned by banks to such economically low-placed people to come up in life. Some unscrupulous guys do not even spare such privileges of the economically weaker sections.
The following is my perception of a recent newspaper report. Murder is a gravely punishable crime. Right? You are dead wrong! A recent Supreme Court ruling implies this. A lady with her paramour had murdered the husband of the lady. The reason - the husband called her and their daughter 'whores'. Calling a lady or a girl by such name (whore) is not acceptable. So, the woman had every right to murder her husband for calling her and her daughter as 'whores'. Having an illicit (we cannot call it 'illicit', may be 'outside the marriage relationship'!) affair is acceptable as per the recent Supreme Court ruling. Crime committed or not? It is of a lesser intensity, deserving a minor punishment only. What about the basic law that 'murder is a punishable offence of the highest order'? It is bent, using other recent verdicts. Simple!
A joke I heard sometime back in a discourse goes like this. A person in charge of selection of a candidate for an officer post wanted to give the post to his relative. That guy (relative) has got a degree in engineering as well as a law degree. It is a very rare combination! Is it not? So, the person in charge framed the 'eligibility' for the job in such a way that only his relative could apply for the job. That post does not in any way require a combination of engineering degree and law degree. How ingeniously he circumvented the tough situation, to his (relative's) advantage! This may not be a joke, anymore....
Whatever be any legislation to help those who really need it, there are people to subvert and take undue advantage of it. They bend any rule to their advantage. They can find very big holes in any law and come through it unscathed. They can bend it like Beckam!
An industrialist had misused the trust of his employees and taken loans in the employees' names with the connivance of the bank manager and usurped all the loan funds. When the bank sent notices to the employees for non-payment of interest in time, the fraud came to light. The personal loans are sanctioned by banks to such economically low-placed people to come up in life. Some unscrupulous guys do not even spare such privileges of the economically weaker sections.
The following is my perception of a recent newspaper report. Murder is a gravely punishable crime. Right? You are dead wrong! A recent Supreme Court ruling implies this. A lady with her paramour had murdered the husband of the lady. The reason - the husband called her and their daughter 'whores'. Calling a lady or a girl by such name (whore) is not acceptable. So, the woman had every right to murder her husband for calling her and her daughter as 'whores'. Having an illicit (we cannot call it 'illicit', may be 'outside the marriage relationship'!) affair is acceptable as per the recent Supreme Court ruling. Crime committed or not? It is of a lesser intensity, deserving a minor punishment only. What about the basic law that 'murder is a punishable offence of the highest order'? It is bent, using other recent verdicts. Simple!
A joke I heard sometime back in a discourse goes like this. A person in charge of selection of a candidate for an officer post wanted to give the post to his relative. That guy (relative) has got a degree in engineering as well as a law degree. It is a very rare combination! Is it not? So, the person in charge framed the 'eligibility' for the job in such a way that only his relative could apply for the job. That post does not in any way require a combination of engineering degree and law degree. How ingeniously he circumvented the tough situation, to his (relative's) advantage! This may not be a joke, anymore....
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