Kumar Kartikeya

Yet the decision of the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Surat to convict and sentence a prominent Indian politician like Rahul Gandhi to two years in prison is unique and, in a sense, a denial of the Supreme Court's concept.

The criminal justice system that periodically, fails the accused by keeping them in custody for decades, eventually acquitting them after years, often on death row, in such a system is it really possible to prevent unlawful death sentences?