OUR CORRESPONDENT
Bangalore: Chief Justice S.P. Bharucha of the Supreme Court is reported to have recently said in a speech in Kerala that about 20% of the judiciary is corrupt. (Hindu Feb.22, 2002: “Judicial corruption”).
At last an upright non-Hindu Parsi judge has to come to admit this fact which is known to everybody in India. When the CJI says it is 20% it must be at least double of that. But even this 20% figure is alarming because one in every five judges is corrupt. But the CJI did not say if he was referring to lower judiciary or the higher-High Courts and the Supreme Court. In DV, we have said enough on the “Judicial terrorism” which has completely frustrated the upward mobility of the submerged 85% of India’s population. The cause of corruption is the upper caste monopoly of higher judiciary. The upper caste false claim that “merit” is their monopoly and “lower castes” are “brainless idiots” has led to this disaster. The only way out and the easiest and the most democratic solution is to give caste-wise representation which is also the demand of the over 85% of India’s population.
