"If Brig Dasgupta is not guilty, then the Government is."

"If Brig Dasgupta  is not guilty then the Government is."

In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.
--Abraham Lincoln
But the Dreyfus Affair...is not fixed in space and time. The combat of the individual against society, truth against deception, is specific neither to France nor to the end of the nineteenth century.
--Jean-Denis Bredin [1]
What rationale could have possibly been strong enough for France's generally apolitical Army to fabricate an elaborate case against one of its own? Who could possibly let himself believe such a thing, that the honorable men entrusted with the defense of the nation against their immediate, and very threatening enemies, the Germans, could be capable of such an outrage? Had not the Minister of War, General Auguste Mercier, assured the military editor of the influential newspaper Figaro that, from the beginning they had "proofs that cried aloud the treason of Dreyfus" and that his "guilt was absolutely certain"? [6]
Mercier's parliamentary aide, General Riu, put it this way, "Today one must be either for Mercier or for Dreyfus; I am for Mercier." "If Dreyfus is acquitted, Mercier goes," said the royalist-leaning l'Autorite, and a military colleague demonstrated his grasp of what was at stake by noting that, if in a retrial "Captain Dreyfus is acquitted, it is General Mercier who becomes the traitor." L'Autorite raised the stakes one step higher by observing that, since Mercier was a member of the government, "If Dreyfus is not guilty then the Government is."

Just read this famous case:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair
http://www.dreyfus.culture.fr/en/
http://www.dreyfus.culture.fr/en/the-long-road-to-justice/
http://www.dreyfus.culture.fr/en/the-long-road-to-justice/towards-the-quashing-of-the-case-without-appeal/the-captain-s-affair.htm
Text of J'accuse! (in English and French) a "masterpiece" of polemics and a literary achievement "of imperishable beauty."  No other newspaper article has ever provoked such public debate and controversy or had such an impact on law, justice, and society.
"J'ACCUSE ...!" EMILE ZOLA, ALFRED DREYFUS, AND THE GREATEST NEWSPAPER ARTICLE IN HISTORY Author: Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law.


We have found India's Dreyfus !
Where is India's Emile Zola?