Recent incidents of Vijay Mallya fleeing away with 7000 cr debt and people using his example for justification of all their wrong doing makes me think of my status? Am I rich because I don’t owe anything to anyone? Or am I poor because my living of standard is far below that of Mallya and others who owe millions to government. I am very sure this question must be striking through everyone’s mind that if Mallya can do it, why can’t you and me?
A poor farmer’s wife asked this question in Thanjavur district Tamil Nadu, when her husband was beaten by police for a loan default of 1.4 lakhs. She asked, if police cannot do anything to Mallya who ran away with so much default, then who gave them right to touch her husband on a default of such a small amount. Well her point is both right and wrong at the same point.
The law, actions, punishments and attitude of government body should be same for all the citizens. All defaulters for a particular deed should be treated in same way. Another opinion may be completely opposite to this. The case of one default cannot be justified on the fact that someone else escape with the same default. If everyone start murdering because one murders escaped without punishment then there’s no end for that. Now coming to the fact, in this case farmer’s default was because his crop was not good and he didn’t have resources to pay back the instalment.
A unique case came into light on similar lines in Mumbai. Where a lady was caught travelling without ticket in Mumbai local, and when asked for the fine, she simply refused. Her point was if government cannot catch Mallya and recover money from him, they don’t have right to fine her also. She belong a decent family and have her own home in the part of city where any home will cost in crores. A ticket would have cost her only 10 Rs. She didn’t buy it because Mallya ran away with some 7000 cr. Woah!!
Imagine the scene in court, Judge asks the culprit: ‘Why did you steal money?’ Culprit: ‘because Mallya ran away with 7000 cr’!
In second court:
Judge: Why did you ask for bribe?
Culprit: Because Mallya ran away with 7000 cr.
In third court:
Judge: Why do you guys want divorce?
Husband/wife together: Because Mallya ran away with 7000 cr!!
Teacher : Why did you cheat in examination?
Student: because Mallya ran away with 7000 cr..!!
You can imagine more situations and let me know 😉
