Last night I watched a re-run of an old super-hit Bollywood flick, Damini. The most memorable scene for me is when Govind (Damini’s lawyer) is approached by Chaddha (a corrupt lawyer) warning him to drop Damini’s case and leave the town or else he would regret his decision.

Least effected by Chaddha’s threats and his hired goon’s sharp sword; Govind simply flares his nostrils, points is heafty palm at Chaddha and produces one of the most powerful dialogues ever in Hindi Cinema.

He says, “Chaddha jab yeh dhai kilo ka haat kise pe padta hai toh aadmi uttha nahi utt jata hai”. Needles to say, Chaddha and his goons make a hasty exit from the screen.

But then this happened in reel life, in reality neither do we have men like Govinds who are ready to withstand any force inorder to attain justice for the needy nor do we have women like Damini, who give two hoots about the society and are even ready to sacrifice their family life just to attain justice.

However this situation seems to be changing and thankfully changing for the better. Today, finally Priyadarshini Mattoo has won her battle; a victory which has come nearly 11 years after her death.

NDTV Reports:

The Delhi High Court has convicted Santosh Kumar Singh, son of a former IPS officer, in the Priyadarshni Mattoo case.

He was convicted on both counts of rape and murder.

Allowing the CBI appeal against the trial court verdict acquitting the accused, a Bench comprising Justice R S Sodhi and Justice P K Bhasin said “the acquittal order passed by the trial judge in 1999 has shocked the conscience of the judiciary.”

The Bench said it would prescribe the sentence of death or life imprisonment to the convict after Diwali vacation.

Priyadarshini Mattoo, a Delhi University student, was found murdered at her Vasant Kunj flat in south Delhi on January 23, 1996.

Hopefully this win will also have a positive impact on pending cases, for example Jessica Lall, Manjunathan, Satyendra Dubey and many more. And hopefully from now on it wouldn’t take a father or a sister a life-time worth of struggle and court-room hassles in their search for righteousness.

I seriously feel that the main honcho-ponchos of Shiv Sena Party have nothing better to do these days. Not that they ever did much for the city’s betterment but atleast they were never so frequent with daily new headlines.

Couple of day’s back they were busy ripping off posters and having a showdown with their newly-found opposition, Raj Thackeray’s Maharahtra Navnirman Sena. And on Sunday, Mr. Bal Thackeray threw another bouncer by urging fellow Indians to boycott all the matches involving the Pakistani cricket team during the on-going Champions Trophy.

Continue reading, “Boycott Shiv Sena”.

This is the very reason why a pet Dog is often called a Man’s best friend.

Jamie Hanson, a disabled woman stated that her life was spared all thanks to her 13 year old pet dog, Jesse. Jamie’s house caught fire when her pet cat accidentally tipped a burning candle on couple of artificial plants kept on the side-table.

The Associated Press reports:

“She got me outside and then she heard the cat upstairs and she went up there to get the cat and she wouldn’t come back to me,” Hanson, 49, said at a news conference Monday at Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center where she was being treated for her injuries.

She received third-degree burns to an arm in the fire Sunday night at her home in the town of Rhine south of Elkhart Lake.

Hanson said she fell off the couch and was unable to get her artificial leg from the table, “so my dog got my leg for me and went and got the phone and brought the phone to me so I could call 911.”

She said she tried to put the prosthetic leg on, but it was too hot, and the dog, a golden retriever-German shepherd mix, came to her aid again before going back inside for the cat.

Sadly, both the pets died in the fire.