Bangalore: DV was the first and perhaps the bitterest critic of the country’s highest judiciary. At the same time, we have also criticised the legislature for becoming soft to the ruling upper caste atrocities at the expense of the toiling masses of India.
We know the ruling Brahminical order is bent upon destabilising the elected legislature so that the unelected High Court and Supreme Court judges — mostly upper castes — can gradually take over the function of the political” executive.
We have written many Editorials, reports and published many articles — some of which are reprinted as a booklet, Judicial Terrorism (DSA-2006).
The Tamil Nadu Govt. was the first in the country to echo our sentiments: –
Don’t exceed limits
Madras: Relations between the DMK Govt in Tamil Nadu and the higher judiciary hit rock bottom on Feb.4 with a senior minister, speaking in the presence of an approving Chief Minister Karunanidhi, handing out a virtual warning to the judges of the Madras High Court not to transgress their limits and hold kangaroo courts. “Some judges are behaving as though they have jumped from heaven. Everyone has a limit and must function within that. There is no legal sanction to criticise an elected Chief Minister or unnecessarily fault his government. My only worry is that courts should not end up as kattapanchayats. If the courts continue to function in this manner, people will lose confidence in them”, Electricity Minister Arcot N. Veerasamy said while speaking at a wedding ceremony here.
Buddha flirts with Tatas
“Some courts in TN are functioning in a manner as if they command more authority than a democratically- elected chief minister. | do not consider high court judges superior to the CM. Who has given the authority to the high court to usurp the powers of the chief minister? Has the high court been given more responsibility than the chief minister? While we cannot indulge in a personal attack on judges, we have all the right to criticise their judgments”, he said. (Asian Age, Feb.5, 2007).
We can’t fully blame the higher judiciary because the political executive like the Prime Minister, some Cabinet Minister and Chief Ministers are also going out of the way to weaken the constitution to please their upper caste masters. In Bengal, the people are in violent confrontation — not with the higher judiciary but with the state Chief minister who calls himself a red hot marxist though a Brahmin.
Buddhadev Bhattacharya’s flirtations with Tatas and other capitalists are against the marxist philosophy. What right does the political executive have to criticise the higher judiciary which, being upper caste in composition, is naturally pro-rich?
Judges appointment: We don’t think the political leadership has the guts to clip the wings of judiciary and take over the right of appointing judges from the Supreme Court. Has it the courage to investigate the complaints of corruption in higher judiciary?
Now that a person with a heart has become the country’s first Dalit Chief Justice of India, the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh can easily solve all these problems. But the problem of all problem is the PM himself is upper caste with his sympathies fully with his jatwalas. Meanwhile, former Union Law Ministers Shanti Bhushan and Ram Jethmalani are leading the battle against corrupt practices in the higher judiciary, adds the Voice of Buddha (Jan.1, 2007).
“The judiciary of this country is not merely unaccountable but corrupt and brazenly so”, Shanti Bhusan wrote in a letter to President Abdul Kalam on Dec.17. Bushan has demanded that the President initiate impeachment proceedings against Justice Jagdish Bhalla of the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court. On Dec:14, a Supreme Court (SC) collegium recommended that Justice Bhalla be appointed the Chief Justice of the Kerala HC. Bushan, Jethmalani along with noted lawyers and former justices, including Rajendra Sachar, Indira Jaisingh and Hardev Singh have formed the Committee on Judicial Accountability (COJA) and presented documents to the then Chief Justice of India (CJ!), Y.K., Sabharwal, to support their complaint against the sitting judges.
COJA complained to the CJl on July 11 that Justice Jagdish Bhalla had amassed several illegal properties in the name of his wife and other close relatives.
Justice Vijender Jain, the former senior judge in the Delhi High Court, who was recently appointed the CJ of Punjab and Haryana HC, is also in COJA’s line of fire.
By questioning the integrity of Justices Bhalla and Jain, Bhushan has thrown open the much larger question of judicial accountability. Leave aside taking any action against corrupt judges like Justice Jagdish Bhalla and Justice Vijender Jain, the then CJl avoided even properly investigating charges against them.
According to documents produced by COJA on July 21, 2003, Renu Bhalla bought a 7,200 sg. metre plot near the Noida-Greater Noida expressway.
Justice Jain who took oath as the new CJ of Punjab and Haryana HC in November had to endure many delays before he could be appointed to the post.
President Kalam intervenes: Meanwhile, President Kalam has asked the govt. to reconsider the appointment of Justice J. Bhalla as the Chief Justice of Kerala High Court.
Now that the corruption in the highest courts of the land has come for public debate with names being openly mentioned, people must come out with their experience with other judges.
