DesiPundit

Indiatime discusses an interesting news report - the AP government has agreed to pay Rs. 5 lakhs as “blood money” to secure the pardon of an Indian convicted of murdering a compatriot in Kuwait.  Obviously, this is taxpayer money.  I can agree with cases where the state pays out taxpayer money as ransom to help release a kidnapped person.  But is it a good use of taxpayer money to help release a convicted criminal?

So coming back to the point, an NRI in Kuwait who is originally from Kerala stabs and kills another NRI originally from Andhra, and the Andhra government is now paying the victim’s wife Rs. 5 lakhs of the taxpayer money (surely the money isn’t coming from the Chief minister’s pocket) because the murderer from Kerala comes from a poor family.