No Heroes for Jessica

When Jessical Lall was shot in full public view in an illegal bar owned by an influential socialite, nobbody had any doubts about the case. There were witnesses, circumstantial evidence, the weapon, the bullets, the getaway car and an absconding key accused. Despite all this there was no conviction. The case is open again and this prhyme is all about the queer developments of the recent past.

Jessica died
Some people cried
And then they lost the case.
Manu walked
Coz no one talked
Justice has its ways.

Manu's Dad
Was big and bad
And pulled out all the stops
To cover the tracks
With cash in stacks
To the Shayans and the cops.

Bina and daughter
Threw lots of water
On the bloodstains in the bar
Who disappeared quicker
Than the illegal liquor
Was the culprit in the car.

Years after the crime
There came a time
When the case was opened again
Jethmalani
Came into the kahani
For the slayer, not the slain.

There's lots of talk
With pain and shock
Of where the case is going
The sex angle
The socialite tangle
The intricacies are growing.

Its a filmy plot
With all that's hot
Violence, glamour and sex.
The heroine's nailed
The vamp is jailed
The villians are saving their necks.

But its not a movie
In which a groovy
Macho hero crashes the party
Beats up the crooks
While the system just looks
And everything is hale and hearty.

In the land of zero
There is no hero
Who will bring the bad to book
There was a Ram
Who said, "No ma'am"
I'd rather represent the crook.