Friday, March 4, 2011
Tujhe Salam…….
Today I am proud to be an Indian. I'm proud that there are still people of the calibre of original leaders who did things for the greater good and not for their personal pockets.
Justice S H Kapadia of the Supreme Court who is the Chief Justice of India will go down in the annals of history as one such person. He doesn't wear a Nehru Cap or white Khadi but his words reflect his humbleness and Gandhigiri when he says"the only asset I have is my integrity".
Today , he rocked my world and the world of almost every intelligent Indian with his judgement on Central Vigillance Comissioner PJ Thomas. A straight rap on the knuckles with a ruler for the government which has to date made an eye wash of almost every so called "investigation". (By the way, Quatrrochi charge sheet was dropped today due to inadequate evidence despite the fact that we have letters from the swiss banks in reply to a letter rogatory sent by India linking a late politician to the scam ).
Lets try and understand what happened in this case. In India we have someone known as a Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) who is basically the watchdog of the government. The CVC overlooks subjects such as Transparency in tendering system, delays in conduct of disciplinary proceedings & sanctions for prosecution pending over 4 months, etc.
When a Central Vigilance Commissioner is to be appointed a High power Committee is formed. In this case it was formed of three luminaries i.e. Mr. Manmohan Singh, Mr. Chidambram and Ms. Sushma Swaraj.
On 3rd Sept 2010, three names were put forward for the post of CVC and Mr. Mamohan Singh insisted that it
should be PJ Thomas. It was pointed out to him that there was an investigation pending against him in a Palmolien import case as to when he was Kerala Food minister and that appointing him would be a slap in the face of justice since by all rights he would overlook his own investigation to a degree. It was so obvious to everyone concerned about this farce, that Sushma Swaraj had to put her protest in writing ( a very very rare thing for any government committee) to protect herself when Mr. Singh rammed it through.
The Supreme Court bench passed an order which clearly said that no matter what our PM or any committee says, the legality of the eligibility of Mr. PJ Thomas was not valid since he had a old case pending against him.
The judgement was so damming that even the Prime Minister Mr. (Clean Ceasars wife) Manmohan Singh had no choice but to accept blame. (click here to read full copy of the Supreme Court judgement detailing the shenanigans of Mr. Thomas and his cohorts)
Guess that unlike Prime Ministers and Ceasers wife, Our esteemed Prime Minister does not think that Central Vigilance Commissioners have to be above suspicion.
I have always said that the apex judiciary is perhaps the only branch of the governing process which seems to be functioning.
This was reinforced by the next judgement the same day from a bench of Justices B Sudershan Reddy and SS Nijjar screaming " what the hell is going on?".
This was in the case of Mr Hassan Ali whom I have already written about a to a couple of years ago when the case broke.
(taxman cometh) & ( count the zeros)
Lets put Mr. Hassan Ali in perspective. Mr Pranab Mukerjee has just announced that we have a budget deficit of approx. 3.5 Lakh Crores to 4 Lakh Crores. Mr Hassan Ali was served a notice of Rs. 50,000 Crores + interest. This is equal to 1/8 of our fiscal deficit this year.
Add to that Rs. 1 Lakh some odd Crores which we allegedly pissed away in the wind thanks to Mr. Raja and our Budget deficit drops to 1/2.
No wonder the judges said those un-parliamentary words……Looks like not only the public , even the judiciary is losing its cool with this tomfoolery.
If I could physically do it, I would go to Delhi stand in front of the Supreme court and salute them…..in the meanwhile…..Judges…….."aap ko her Bharatwasi ka salaam".
The words "Ceasers wife must be above suspicion" are a very interesting choice when we look deeper. They were originally meant to convey that even Ceasar divorced Pompeia, his second wife, since she was supposed to have had a "dalliance" with a well known playboy of Rome.
The interesting part is that during this period even though having an affair outside marriage was frowned upon, regular stuff which we would frown on today like wild orgies in the name of religion, women staff acting as "full service" servants for both masters and mistresses, etc were the norm of the day.
Sort of reminds you like the government in India doesn't it. Getting caught with your hand in the till is not allowed but every other way of screwing the citizen is.
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