Story: Email scammer sent down in $242m fraud case
Posted by: Praveen Dalal (Monday 18 July 2005, 7:31 PM)
The need of the hour
The law regulates the social interests through the instrumentality of criminal law. There is a cross cultural inconsistency where living law must find answer to the new challenges and the courts are required to mould the sentencing system to meet the challenges. The infectivity of anarchy would weaken social order and lay it in carcass. Fortification of society and stamping out criminal inclination must be the object of the law, which must be achieved by imposing suitable sentence. Therefore, law as a corner stone of the edifice of “order” should meet the challenges confronting the society. In working the sentencing system, law should espouse the corrective machinery or the deterrence based on realistic milieu. The sentencing process should be stern where it should be, and tempered with compassion where it warrants to be.
The present case will set a precedent that will produce a deterrent effect to some extent. The nuisance created by “Nigerian frauds” is rampant and no country is protected and safe from it. The present effort is a good step in this direction.
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