To The Hon’ble Members of the Bar Association of the Punjab and Haryana High Court
I am strengthened and moved by the support extended by this house. I have the privilege to be its member for fifteen years and thereafter had the opportunity to view the court from the other side.
I am grateful to this house for what it has done for me while I was its member and had no idea that at this late stage of life this house will do so much for me.
Rule of law is my passion it is the legacy of this profession and it still fills me with anger when a Citizen is denied this basic protection.
In this process I have attracted certain allegations and feel compelled to make myself dear before those who have so courageously stood by me.
I maintain that “No cause justifies the killing of an innocent and terrorism is the slaughter of the innocents.”
The only salvation lies in up-holding the law. Killers must be caught and hanged. But when the state chooses the easier alternative of forgetting the actual killer and killing anyone it feet’s like to claim a prize and close the case then I can’t rest think I ought to raise my voice because all of us are interconnected part of one human family and if an innocent is killed today either by AK47 or in custody my tum is bound to come.
I am protesting because “l sees it coming for me you and our children. I see no other way except to be fair to everyone.
Ajit Singh Bains
4/20/92
Article extracted from this publication >> May 29, 1992
