Is India & Indians ready for death penelty for extreme crimes?

 

 

Crimes of Endangering Public Security 

1. Committing arson, causing a breach to a dam or dyke, causing explosions, spread poison that inflicts serious injury or death on people or causes heavy losses of public or private property by other dangerous means. 

2. Sabotaging any means of transport, transportation facility, electric power facility, gas facility, or inflammable or explosive equipment, thereby causing serious consequences to the exchequer. 

3. Any hijacker who causes serious injury to or death of any other person or serious damage to any aircraft, sea-craft, railway and road vehicle. 

4. Illegally manufacturing, trading, transporting, mailing or storing any firearms, guns, ammunition or explosives. 

5. Stealing or attempting to steal any guns, ammunition or explosives. 

6. Theft of any guns, ammunition or explosives or attempt to steal any guns, ammunition or explosives from Police, members of the Armed forces, or the Para- military. 

7. Producing or selling fake medicines that cause death or especially serious harm to human health. 

8. Whoever mixes the foods that is produced or sold with toxic or harmful non-food raw materials or knowingly sells such foods that cause death or especially serious harm. Crimes of Smuggling 

9. Smuggling weapons, ammunition, nuclear materials or counterfeit currency into or out of the country. 

10. Smuggling cultural relics, gold, silver or other precious metals, the export of which is forbidden by the State, or precious and rare species of wildlife as well as the products thereof, the import and export of which are forbidden by the State, under all circumstances. 

Crimes of Disrupting the Financial Administration 

11. Whoever counterfeits currencies and 

      (a) Being a ringleader of a gang engaged in counterfeiting currencies, 

      (b) Having counterfeited currencies in especially huge, amounts; or 

      (c) Being involved in other especially serious matters of counterfeiting. Crimes of  Financial Fraud 

12. Whoever, for the purpose of illegal possession, raises funds by means of fraud 

13. Whoever commits fraud by means of financial bills in any of the following ways 

      (d) Knowingly using forged or altered bills of exchange, promissory notes or cheques; 

      (e) Knowingly using invalidated bills of exchange, promissory notes or cheques; 

      (f) Illegally using another's bills of exchange, promissory notes or cheques; 

      (g) Signing and issuing a invalid cheque or a cheque on which the signature is not in conformity with the reserved specimen signature, in order to defraud money or property; or 

      (h) Signing or issuing bills of exchange or promissory notes without funds as a guaranty, in the capacity of a drawer, falsely specifying the particulars thereon at the time of issue, in order to defraud money or property. 

14. Whoever commits fraud by means of a letter of credit in any of the following manner: 

      (i) Using a forged or altered letter of credit or any of its attached bills or documents; 

      (j) Using an invalidated letter of credit; 

      (k) Fraudulently obtaining a letter of credit; or 

      (l) In any other ways. ... AND if the amount involved is especially huge, and especially heavy losses are caused to the interests of the Nation and the people. 

15. Whoever, falsely makes out invoices for value-added tax or any other invoices to defraud a tax refund for exports or to offset tax money, thus causing especially heavy losses to the interests of the Nation. 

16. Whoever, forges or sells forged special invoices for value-added tax, so that economic order is seriously disrupted. Crimes of Infringing Upon Citizens' Right of the Individual and Democratic Rights 

17. Intentionally commits homicide. 

18. Intentionally inflicting injury upon another person or, by resorting to especially cruel means, causes severe injury to the person, reducing the person to utter disability. 

19. Raping a woman or has sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 16 in any of the following circumstances: 

      (m) The circumstances being flagrant; 

      (n) Raping a number of women or girls under the age of 16; 

      (o) Raping a woman of any age before the public in a public place; 

      (p) Raping a woman of any age by one or more persons in succession; or 

      (q) Causing serious injury or death to the victim of rape or other serious consequences. 

20. Kidnapping and unlawfully detaining another person or unlawfully depriving the personal freedom of another person by any other means AND if causing injury, disability or death to the victim by violence. 

21. Unlawfully detaining or confines another person in order to get payment of a ransom does the same in (20) 

22. Where a functionary of a government department commits any of the crimes mentioned above. 

23. Kidnapping another person for the purpose of extorting money or property or as a hostage. 

24. Abducting and trafficking in a woman or child AND if the circumstances are especially serious beyond the following: 

     (r) Being a ringleader of a gang engaged in abducting and trafficking in women and children; 

     (s) Abducting and trafficking in three or more women and/or children; (t) Raping the woman who is abducted and trafficked in; 

     (u) Enticing or forcing the woman who is abducted and trafficked in to engage in prostitution, or selling such woman to any other person who would force her to engage in prostitution; 

     (v) Kidnapping a woman or child by means of violence, coercion or anesthesia for the purpose of selling the victim; 

     (w) Stealing a baby or an infant for the purpose of selling the victim; 

     (x) Causing serious injury or death to the woman or child who is abducted and trafficked in or to her or his relatives or any other serious consequences; or 

     (y) Selling a woman or a child out of the territory of India. 

Other 

• Illegally selling or transferring weapons or equipment of the armed forces. 

• Any serviceman who, during wartime, cruelly injures innocent residents in an area of military operation or plunders their money or property. 

• All foreign nationals transporting into India weapons of warfare and those foreign nationals who enter India to conduct war or plan to conduct war against the Nation.

Letter from former President Dr. Abdul Kalam

 

Why is the media here so negative? 

Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. 

Why? • We are the first in milk production. We are number one in Remote sensing satellites. We are the second largest producer of wheat. We are the second largest producer of rice. 

 Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters. 

I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news. 

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.. Why are we so NEGATIVE? 

Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? We want foreign T.Vs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? 

I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is. She replied: I want to live in a developed India . For her, you and I will have to build this developed India. You must proclaim. India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation. 

Do you have 10 minutes? Allow me to come back with a vengeance. 

Got 10 minutes for your country? If yes, then read; otherwise, choice is yours.. • 

YOU say that our government is inefficient. YOU say that our laws are too old. YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage. YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke. The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination. YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits. YOU say, say and say. 

What do YOU do about it? Take a person on his way to Singapore . Give him a name - 'YOURS'. Give him a face - 'YOURS'. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International best. In Singapore you don't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are.. You pay $5 (approx. Rs. 60) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU come back to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status identity… In Singapore you don't say anything, DO YOU? 

YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai .. YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds (Rs.650) a month to, 'see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone else.'YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop, 'Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so's son. Take your two bucks and get lost.' 

YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia and New Zealand .. 

Why don't YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo? 

Why don't YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston? 

We are still talking of the same YOU. YOU, who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own. 

YOU, who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country, why cannot you be the same here in India? In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job. Same in Japan .. Will the Indian citizen do that here?' 

We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility. We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. 

We expect the government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin. 

We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms. 

We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity.This applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service to the public. 

When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child, and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. 

Our excuse? 'It's the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons' rights to a dowry.' So who's going to change the system? 

What does a system consist of? Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbors, other households, other cities, other communities and the government. But definitely not me and YOU! 

When it comes to us actually making a positive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr. Clean to come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away. 

Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to England . When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government. Everybody is out to abuse and exploit the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money. Lets do what India needs from us. Forward this mail to each Indian for a change. 

Thank you, 

Dr. Abdul Kalam

NOTE: This article has not been verified as the original speech of Dr. Kalam. Kindly read it for its content and not necessarily for its author. Thanks