My sympathies do not lie with Sanjay Dutt – He may not be a terrorist; but he is guilty on several counts – he broke the law, and he tried to un-make by trying to diabolically conceal the first breach. And he should have been incredibly stupid to do it. Or even incredibly drunk with celebrity psychology of “I can do anything and get away with it”.
However, what is laughable is the content story in the Hindu, on Sanjay Dutt’s arrest.
Since Sanjay Dutt 
is from the stable of the above - it is not surprising he was obtuse; looks like the whole film industry seem to believe that one could break the law and s/he can get away with it on perfectly legitimate grounds stupidity ! What does the film industry think? Or want ? That they could script a perfect court-room scene, where Munnabhai after the crime, would ask for leniency on grounds of "Jaadu ki pappi" and one last call to his beloved and the judge would break down, pound the gravel and let him go, with one year suspended prison term; then the hero, hand in hand with his dear wife and lovely kids, would walk out and break into a song as the credits roll?!
Look at the roll-of-honour in the news item – Each one of them is Nani Palkhiwala in their own right and understand the law better than the care-takers of Indian Justice and legal system. Victim of Conspiracy ? Hello ???!! Anyone home? What next, Monica Bedi would start expounding as to why faking passports is a perfect normal thing to do in this country?
I wish the Justice Kode hauls all their collective asses wholesale into couple of days into the prison on the charges of contempt of court, off their wonderland and get them into the real world !!!!
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The Hindu is getting ridiculous by the day. So much so that my dad is actually buying the Bangalore Mirror. In one of their classic editorials, the Hindu calls the Nandigram firing the result of a provocation caused by the marauding protesters and the Andhra firing as a case of Police rowdyism. Kindly note that the Communists are ruling in WB and are organizing the protest in AP.
4TD: Actually, my issue was not about the Hindu (this time). Its the naivete of the Film industry or such ignorance or such arrogance...
May be your issue is not with the paper.. But news papers could handle such issues as just another news item and not try to promote its own sales by giving undue importance to such things and inflate an already inflated egos of the people concerned...
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