Judicial activism returns
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/143466/judicial-activism-returns.htmlAshish Tripathi
If delivering a body blow to the government in the case of appointment
of Central Vigilance Commissioner P J Thomas was not enough, the
Supreme Court on the same day – March 3 – thundered in the black money
case: 'What the hell is going on? We are very disturbed'.
It showed the revulsion of the people with regard to state of affairs
and governance.
It is not that only the top court is concerned with regard to
governance, the annoyance has run down deep to lower judiciary as
well.
That's why, a chief magisterial court while allowing CBI to drop
criminal charges against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in
over two-decade-old Bofors pay off case referred to the plight of
common man.
Plain speak
"Can we allow this hard earned money of 'aam aadmi' of India to be
spent on these types of proceedings which are not going to do any good
to them, after almost 25 years of the so called 'arms deal'. The
answer would be a big 'NO'," CMM Vinod Yadav said, reading out the
judgement.
"While we are busy in discussing the Sensex and scams, India's poorest
are barely surviving, thanks to an appalling governance deficit. In
some areas of our country, we have no electricity, no roads, no proper
water facilities; 50% of India lives on less than US $ 2 a day; 100
million childen go to bed hungry every night; 62% live without
electricity and in some of the areas, the villages are another heart
of India's darkness," the magisterial court said in its order on
Bofors case.
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Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. - Mohandas Gandhi
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