This refers to the latest very hot news in the entire Goan media on the topic of the 500 + years sentence imposed on two Goans in Dubai, one was the owner of the company and the other is the 25 year old employee from Siolim.
With due respect to the Dubai Judiciary, unfortunately for passing such a lofty sentence on the youthful 25 year old employee of Exential Co., accusing him of collaborating with the top boss of the company in duping the customers, I like to comment as follows based on my layman logic.
In fact, the young boy Mr. Rayan was promoted to the post of senior accountant just 4 months before he was arrested and in view of this how an employee with 4 months of experience in this field can have access to the minute confidential information of the company? Secondly, Rayan was not in the management segment, the boss is the management who should be aware of everything and if anybody is to be held responsible it sould be the person who decides the company’s decisions and not Rayan who is very small man in the company hierarchy.
I can rightly vouch for the innocence of Rayan in this matter, he was either intentionally implicated or forced to confess what he has not done by using unethical, uncivilized, un-Islamic and anti-islamic methods. These crude and stone age harsh methods are normally used by the Gulf countries to extort confession from the accused and having no option the accused surrenders by accepting what he has not done. I don’t think Islam approves such cruel treatment especially when Prophet Mohammed himself ordered the release of the Jews caught in the war instead of meting out inhuman treatment to them, as expected by their captors. If the methods used to extort the confession from Rayan are wrong then it will be an unIslamic act promoted in the Islamic country by the Islamic Judiciary which is surely going against their Islamic principles and doctrine.
It is my right as per the Islamic doctrine to fight for the rights of Rayan when I feel he is innocent. When we raise his issue for justice then we are fighting for justice for him in the name of Islam by quoting Prophet Mohamed as mentioned below:
When Prophet Mohammed was asked once, “when there will be justice in this world?” Replied Prophet immediately saying “When everyone of us will gather courage to fight against the injustice committed on to others as if that injustice is committed on to us only, then and then only there will be justice in this world” concluded the Prophet.
Dubai in UAE is an Islamic country and being so it is a member of Oganisation of Islamic Conference and as such it is governed also by the Shariat Laws which gives ample of freedom for the accused to defend himself. However, some member countries flout these rules as done earlier by Iraq under Saddam Hussein and Iran under Ayatollya Khomeini resulting in delivering of harsh punishment to the accused wherein even the Advocate of the accused found playing the role of a conspirator. This was done in Kuwait when Francis Araujo from Kalafura was sentenced for gallows in early 1990. Some of the Advocates in the Gulf countries are unreliable who are treating Indian clients with total irresponsibility and negligence.
Hence, those supporting Rayan must hire a new and competent lawyer who will be faithful to his client and fight this case all over again. I have no trust in the verdicts delivered by the Islamic Courts. Hence, it is imperative that this particular case has to be brought for review otherwise innocent Rayan will die a miserable death. And if one innocent Rayan goes, what matters to them? After all Rayan however innocent he may be but in the eyes of Gulf Arabs who man the Dubai Judiciary, is just a Hindi Muskin. This tag must not be allowed to apply to Rayan.
A.Veroica Ferandes.