What Ram Jethmalani wants??

This is the question all those people are asking who walked side by side holding candles and demanding Justice for Jessica. I hope this name “ Jessica” is still fresh in our minds. The two slogans which brought India closer this year were “ Youth for equality” and “Justice for Jessica”. While the former was self made the latter was coined by Media as they were falling short of news stories in those un-eventful early summer months.

Anyways, the fire slowly died out and what remained is the long procedures of filing papers, court dates, appointment of public prosecutor and then hiring a legal defendant. The story got much bigger this time as the person who is going to defend Manu Sharma’s case is undisputed king among the criminal lawyers. Ram Jethmalani has this knack of being in news for all kind of reasons. When he was in ministry he made it into news several times but then his position in BJP was slowly taken by young and brilliant lawyer Arun jaitley and the frustration out of this made him target leaders like Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

The move is well calculated now. The fire inside him is slowly dying. The young bunch of Yale and Harvard educated lawyers have this capability of delivering a bigger better show anyday anytime. The magic is fading away and this is his chance to prove that he is the best. To choose to defend Manu Sharma is like making a statement that public was completely wrong and they have no rights to decide the fate of a person in the court of public when the case is lying pending with the court of law. Manu is innocent and Jessica was murdered by some non-existent person or Jessica might have provoked him to shoot her or he was already in a drunken state and he didn’t know what exactly he did in that state. Whatever may be the verdict, at-least I am not going to buy this argument that Jethmalani is doing this for a big fat cheque that Manu’s family is going to write to him at the end of the “FAIR TRIAL”. The only other probability is that he wants to prove this thing to the world that a candle burns brighter just before it dies out. I don't know exactly what motivated Mr. Jethmalani to take up this challenging case but well in the court of public perhaps you will no more be an ideal figure.