One of the main feature of the jurisprudence being followed by our courts is that it doesn’t matter if nine out of ten killers escape punishment but one innocent should never be sent to the gallows. That is the precise reason why the conviction rate in our courts is dismally low. Even if the courts, during the trial of the accused, note a slight lacuna in the prosecution ‘s case they give the benefit of the doubt to the accused who is then set free. There is no gainsaying the fact that the accused often engage highly qualified lawyers by paying them fee of their choice as their defence counsels , whereas , on the other hand the officials of the Prosecution branch cannot hold candle to them in terms of expertise. The result is a foregone conclusion. The law experts are not far wrong when they predict that the recent sentence announced to Mian Nawaz Sharif will be suspended by the High Court. History might repeat itself in Zardari’s case too and he might be let off the hook in the same manner he was acquitted in a number of corruption cases in the past too. Why can’t the NAB engage counsels of repute from the open market to supplement the efforts of its prosecution branch is not understandable.
The present rulers , however, deserve credit for their crusade against corruption in high places and that is that the would-be corrupt element , whether they are politicians or belong to some other profession, would be thinking hundred times before minting money through unfair and illegal ways. Those involved in mega corruption cases cannot now hoodwink the common man by inventing excuses about the accumulation of big money by them. The common man now fully understands the meaning of the famous proverb that behind every big fortune there is an hidden crime.
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