Court ruling

Sir, - Notwithstanding the technological development in the field of artificial intelligence, machines cannot be a substitute for human beings. A robot can never think like a man; it can only do what it has been programmed to.

By the same analogy, the written law cannot be expected to explain the complexities of real-life situations. It has to be suitably applied to the intricacies of the situations and justice rendered.

It is unfortunate that despite the availability of clinching evidence on the involvement of John David, only accused in the gruesome murder of Navarasu, student of Annamalai University, the Madras High Court absolved him on the basis of certain `improbables.'

If the substantial piece of evidence against the accused - who identified the places where he threw the head, torso and the dissection instruments used for the murder - is ignored, how can one account for the brutal killing?

R. Raghuraman,

Chennai

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