SIXTY YEARS OF INDIAN INDEPENDENCE: ROLE OF LAW STUDENTS

Scenario:- Imagine yourself to be on a road at midnight driving a car. You come to a traffic signal. There is nobody around and the signal is red. Will you stop the car until the signal becomes green? The answer of most of us would be an emphatic No ! Even at midnight, in Western countries of the world, if there is a driver driving the car who comes at a red traffic signal, he will wait till it becomes green, even if there is nobody around. The position in India is exactly reverse. The same is more amongst the youngsters who always try to jump the traffic lights and if stopped by the policeman, they know, how to deal with it. In fact, many of us take pride in jumping the traffic lights and thereafter dealing with the policeman. Small and insignificant as the incidence may appear, it shows our inbuilt tendency to break the laws and encourage others to behave in a similar lawless manner.