Out of more than 3,000 cases, only 327 have made it to court with 1,597 suspects acquitted. Almost three years after anti-Christian pogroms, trials are marred by all sorts of irregularities.
Conditions in refugee camps and in the forests are pitiful. There are no guarantees that violence will not flare up again once federal police units leave the area. As new groups emerge pledging more violence against Christians, the justice system is failing to perform its tasks. And mass media are fuelling tensions by their one-sided, partisan coverage. John Dayal, president of the All India Christian Council and the United Christian Forum for Human Rights, gives a run-down on the situation.