Judgment

Sethi, J.—Under the heaps of voluminous record in the form of various paper books spread over thousands of pages, lies the hidden story relating to the new ‘merchants of death and destruction’. Upon dissection, when peeped into, it reflects the woeful situation prevalent in the society where writs of the organised criminal gangs run which affect the peaceful and innocent citizens of the country. This world of gangsters, popularly known as the ‘underworld’, comprises of various gangs headed by notorious dons for whom, the only valuable thing in the life is ‘wealth’ and the useless thing, the ‘life’ of others. Deaths are sold by these dons at their asking price and purchased by those who resort to have immediate results for their enrichment with the deflation of their otherwise inflated money bags. To this underworld, the unemployed, thoughtless and dejected youths are attracted and the bosses of the gangsters leave no stone unturned to utilize the services of such frustrated and misled youth for the commission of crimes, to further their evil designs. Contract killings by employing mercenary killers, after receipt of consideration known as ‘supari’ are the orders of the day,