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IT was recently reported that the Indo-Tibetan Border Police has presented a bill of Rs 11 crore on a plate with fennel seeds (sounf) on the side for providing security to Kasab, a 26/11 terror convict. The Maharashtra Government, on which the bill was slapped, is at a loss to know whether it should laugh or cry looking at the bill. It feels 26/11 attack was not only a state issue but a national one and the Central Government should come forward and say, "Let’s split the bill."
Taxpayers in India are
getting jittery over what is taking so long in extracting information
from Kasab. We should probably give him a status of a ‘national
guest’. There was an SMS joke going around about Osama bin Laden
that he would have still been alive had he crossed over to India and
landed in a jail here.
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The
irony is not about sharing the bill but why so much money should be
spent on guarding a terrorist. While the safety of our common citizens
may be rab de bharosey (in God’s hand), we spend enormous
amounts on guarding those who kill hundreds of our innocent citizens.
Any whistleblower against corruption doesn’t get even a single lathi-carrying
constable as security, whereas Kasab has been provided with 200
commandos round the clock, having most sophisticated weaponry and
state-of-the-art communication system.