Yesterday the media were roaring
over the CBI affidavit filed before the Supreme Court. The CBI and the Union
government both have violated the apex court’s specific direction to the bureau
not to share the investigation report with the latter pertaining to the massive
coal-blocks allocation scam. It was a déjà vu. Things unfolded on expected
lines. Let us hope the court will set an example. Though I must say the director
was truthful to great extent. But he did lose the first opportunity when Rawal
the Addl. S.G. misrepresented the facts before the court.
It is a known fact that
thousands of false affidavits are filed every year in courts across the country
on behalf of the governments at the centre and states with the judiciary
conveniently looking the other way. We seldom find cases when a bureaucrat had
even been charged with perjury let alone punished for it.
These legal skullduggeries
are business as usual with the C.A.G. also who people look upon as different
from other organizations. A few months back I wrote the blog “False
Affidavits by Constitutional Institutions like CAG Defeat Justice”
on blogs.siliconindia.com/drvijayeksaria/
If
the rule of law has to be rooted deep in our polity then the higher courts must
be absolutely clean, intrepid and impartial in order to be ruthless on those
government agencies that take law for a ride.
The system has not yet
fully collapsed because we are fortunate to have a few judges of high integrity
and moral character. The delay in disposal of cases is also nibbling at the
structure and poses the most formidable challenge.
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