India's Uphaar VS Chinese Tainted Milk

India wants to be like China in terms of its economic growth; everyone in India knows and accepts this. But how is it possible if the back bone of our democracy ie the Judiciary doesn't function fairly. Take the case of Uphaar Theater and the case of Chinese tainted milk.

In the Uphaar case 59 people died and many others injured as a result of "rash and negligent act" (as said by the court) by the owners of the theater. When you do not put proper exits and ventilation to let out the smoke (inorder to save some money), because of which people died it is not negligence ; it is COLD BLOODED MURDER. Negligence would be say if there were exits but the doors were jammed; if there were ventilation ducts but they weren't maintained,

The the Chinese case of tainted milk, at least six infants died and thousands fell sick as a result of melamine contamination in the milk. To give an idea on the efficiency of both the judicial systems here are a few distinctions

Uphaar case: Incident took place in 1997
Tainted milk case : Incident took place in Aug-Sep 08

Time duration from the when the incident took place till the sentencing :
Uphaar case : 9 years
Tainted milk case: around 5 months

Sentence given
Uphaar Case : 1 year for each of the two Ansal Brother (9 days in jail for killing each person)
Tainted milk case : 3 sentence to death and one sentence to life ( well deserved)

Did I mention that the Uphaar sentence was originally 2 years but the high court reduced it to one year because they were "old and respected"?

Another case closer to home is of a mine owner in Goa who was arrested in China for delivering ore that was not according to the specifications in the contract. But the same person has his filthy barge marooned at Candolim beach that is destroying the ecosystem in that area and no one had the guts to ask him to remove it. Well our politicians do have the guts to do anything, including letting a cold blooded killer go free, as long as you pay the right price!!