कभी-कभी मेरे दिल में ख़याल आता है

कभी-कभी मेरे दिल में ख़याल आता है;
कि एक निर्दोष अपने इस भारत देश में,
बेवजह दस साल जेल में गुजार जाता है !
आगे इस बेशर्मी का आलम यह है कि,
बदले में भरपाई सिर्फ सौ हजार पाता है !
और दोषी जो अरबो खा जाए चारे संग,
वह नाम अपना सत्ता में शुमार पाता है !

कल शायद आपने भी इस खबर पर गौर किया होगा; MUMBAI: In an important judgment, the Bombay high court on Tuesday ordered the Maharashtra government to pay Rs 1 lakh as compensation to a
40-year-old man who languished in prison for over 10 years for a crime he did not commit. Malegaon resident Bapu Mali was in jail for five years as an undertrial, battling rape and murder charges. Even after being acquitted by the trial court, Mali had to spend five more years in prison as he could not shell out the bail amount when his case went into appeal.

"This is a sorry state of affairs,'' a division bench of Justice Bilal Nazki and Justice A R Joshi said, while upholding the trial court order acquitting Mali. "Not only the prosecuting agency, but also the courts are involved (for Mali languishing in jail). This is a reflection on our own system which needs to be corrected.''


कभी-कभी मेरे दिल में ख़याल आता है;
कि ऊँची उड़ान वाले इस भारत देश में,
जब कोई उड़न खटोला गुम हो जाता है !
तो उसे तलाश करने वालो की नजरो में ,
यहाँ क्यों आसमानी फर्क नजर आता है !
एक की खोज में हमने सब झोंक डाला,
तो एक गुमे हुए को साल गुज़र जाता है !

ये भी अभागे थे जिनका हैलीकोप्टर एक साल पहले कहीं गुम हो गया था, मगर चूँकि ये न तो नेता थे और न किसी राज्य के मुख्यमंत्री, अतः इनके परिजनों के आंसू निर्झर बह रहे है अभी तक :
Aug 03, 2008: Chief Pilot V P Singh, co-pilot R Gaur, flight engineer Santosh Kumar and technician Ashwini Kumar were on board the chopper, which took off from Hyderabad at 3 PM on Sunday. All contacts with the copter were lost at about 4 PM.

The helicopter was supposed to land at regional headquarters of Bastar at Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh at 4.30 pm for refuelling, which never happened, and whereabouts of the Bell-430 had not been known to either Andhra Pradesh or Chhatisgarh, officials said.

Chhattisgarh Government had hired the helicopter from Ranbaxy-owned Ran Air to take its Home Minister Ram Vichar Netam to Ranchi from Raipur.