Free to Go; Case Dismissed!

This is what happens after all. You commit a crime, you are granted bail and in all probability you will be let off because let's face it, our judicial system will pass judgment only when elephants start to fly and when I win the Miss Universe competition.
In recent news, the Mangalore pub attackers have now been granted bail. They were apprehended only because the media made this headline news.
The pub owner himself was apprehensive about filing a complaint against the offenders. I don't blame him. Pitting yourself against goons backed by political parties is not the wisest thing to do. Well, yeah all of us know that in India you can expect to be safe from your local petty thief but not politicians.
And not only politicians, the police as well. News archives bear testimony to crimes against women committed by the police; rape, molestation, harassment, the list goes on.
Santhosh once told me of an incident that his friend narrated to him. His friend was studying in Delhi at the time. For dinner he went to this Dhaba, I think around the outskirts of Delhi, and next to him sat this policeman who was armed. While he was making small talk with the policeman a van passed by and a girl was shouting and screaming out for help. He of course asked the policeman about why was he not doing anything about it, shouldn't he go and save her. The policeman said, "Kya saab, honge kuch MLA ke bete. Hum kuch nahi kar sakhthe." (Translation: What Sir, these people are probably the sons of some MLAs. We cannot do anything about it.)
So, politicians and their offspring have a free hand and can have anything and anyone they fancy. Santhosh's friend was of course really shocked, but the policeman was unperturbed. It was just another ignorable incident on his beat.
When I heard this story I was shocked too (more for the reason that things like this actually do happen and are not just dramatised in Hindi movies, where three out of five movies would feature a damsel in distress screaming 'Bachao, Bachao' (Help, Help) from a moving vehicle filled with nasty men) and was relieved that this sort of thing was not known to happen around Mangalore.
But I can't be so sure anymore.
Today, the politicians have attacked women in a pub in the name of morality. Tomorrow they might go a step further and commit more heinous crimes with the knowledge and assurance that they will be bailed out.
Are our leaders going to do something about this? Oh wait, most of our 'leaders' already have criminal records. And they know that they are "free to go".