NEW DELHI: Former Law minister Shanti Bhushan has submitted a list of 16 former Chief Justices of India saying that 8 of them were definitely corrupt. Bhushan has also dared the apex court to send him to jail for contempt of court.
Bhusan, who was Law minister in the Morarji Desai government, claimed six of the CJIs were honest and he could not comment on the remaining two judges. He submitted the name of eight "corrupt judges" to the Supreme Court.
Bhushan had written an article in 'Tehelka' magazine about the corrupt judges in Supreme Court after which the apex court started a contempt proceeding against him.
Read more: The eight allegedly corrupt CJIs feature among a list of 16 prepared by Bhushan—comprising Justices Ranganath Mishra, K N Singh, M H Kania, L M Sharma, M N Venkatachalliah, A M Ahmadi, J S Verma, M M Punchhi, A S Anand, S P Bharucha, B N Kirpal, G B Patnaik, Rajendra Babu, R C Lahoti, V N Khare and Y K Sabharwal. Terming eight among the list as "definitely corrupt", Bhushan put their names in a sealed cover and submitted it to the Supreme Court and virtually dared it to open it and read out the contents.
He said of the 16 on his list, "six were definitely honest and about the remaining two, a definite opinion cannot be expressed whether they were honest or corrupt"
Classic case of the fence eating the garden? (Just confirms my earlier blog)
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
The Shame of India
Pratyush Sinha, Chief Vigilance Commissioner, retired last week. Very few people are aware of what he did while in office, or more precisely what he was allowed to do while in office. Not many people care either, because there is very less hope of correcting this setup, as it exists.
After coming out of office, after a lifetime spent in babudom, he made an interesting observation. In a speech, he said that one-third of Indians were "utterly corrupt" and half were "borderline" while a fifth cannot be corrupted under any circumstance.
To put it in proper order, it means :
20% of Indians are not corrupt, meaning they cannot be easily lured.
50% are borderline, meaning they don't mind being corrupt "if the price is good" while
30% are utterly corrupt, meaning they will steel from their mother's corpse, even while people are looking.
To an average Indian, this is something that he has always known. It is no secret that India is 84th in the "Transparency International Index" - which rates us as one of the most corrupt countries of the world. So, I don't know anyone who can dispute the statement of the ex-CVC. Some may want to upgrade the figures - as per their own experiences. But remember, this is from a babu who has been in the thick of things within the system and was appointed to be vigilant about it! I must say he has been vigilant, so he should be an authority on this.
Yesterday, speaking at a national convention of Central Information Commission, Veerappa Moily, one of the ministers overseeing corruption in the present cabinet, was very critical of the ex-CVC. He called for action to be taken against the ex-CVC for this "travesty of truth" and said the official owed an apology to the nation, because he has "shamed" the nation!
Now, Moily believes that he and his colleagues can live in eternal corruption, supporting each other. He is not bothered of what the world thinks of us - because on every index we fail. Only, he doesn't want the truth to be told loudly - because that shames the nation. It does not shame him and his colleagues nor are they willing to do anything to eradicate corruption! Easier to eradicate people like the ex-CVC? And so, in blissful ignorance, life goes on for the corrupt in this shamed nation!
After coming out of office, after a lifetime spent in babudom, he made an interesting observation. In a speech, he said that one-third of Indians were "utterly corrupt" and half were "borderline" while a fifth cannot be corrupted under any circumstance.
To put it in proper order, it means :
20% of Indians are not corrupt, meaning they cannot be easily lured.
50% are borderline, meaning they don't mind being corrupt "if the price is good" while
30% are utterly corrupt, meaning they will steel from their mother's corpse, even while people are looking.
To an average Indian, this is something that he has always known. It is no secret that India is 84th in the "Transparency International Index" - which rates us as one of the most corrupt countries of the world. So, I don't know anyone who can dispute the statement of the ex-CVC. Some may want to upgrade the figures - as per their own experiences. But remember, this is from a babu who has been in the thick of things within the system and was appointed to be vigilant about it! I must say he has been vigilant, so he should be an authority on this.
Yesterday, speaking at a national convention of Central Information Commission, Veerappa Moily, one of the ministers overseeing corruption in the present cabinet, was very critical of the ex-CVC. He called for action to be taken against the ex-CVC for this "travesty of truth" and said the official owed an apology to the nation, because he has "shamed" the nation!
Now, Moily believes that he and his colleagues can live in eternal corruption, supporting each other. He is not bothered of what the world thinks of us - because on every index we fail. Only, he doesn't want the truth to be told loudly - because that shames the nation. It does not shame him and his colleagues nor are they willing to do anything to eradicate corruption! Easier to eradicate people like the ex-CVC? And so, in blissful ignorance, life goes on for the corrupt in this shamed nation!
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