Editor,
I respect all religions and I have nothing against the celebration of religious festivals. But my contention here is the manner in which the participants in the procession of immersion of the idol of goddess Durga, heavily littered the Tura bazaar area and the roads surrounding the Tura super market leading to Babupara via SBI, and the whole stretch of road leading to Hawakhana junction. Left, right and centre there were empty plastic water bottles strewn all over the road leaving little distance between one bottle to another. True, the constitution of India guarantees each and every citizen the right to preserve, practice and propagate their own religion, but surely, littering our own town in the name of celebrating religious festivals is not our fundamental right. TMB must ensure no such littering of our town takes place in the name of celebration of any religious festivals in future. Swacch Bharat indeed!
Yours etc.,
N.R. Marak,
Tura
Big Brother SC
Editor,
The Supreme Court (SC) juried for its own cause partially against principal of natural justice. It is a cardinal judicial fact and truth that nowhere in the world “Judges Appoint Judges” under a self-made non-statutory Collegium system which has its own ingredients of varied nepotism, multiple favouritism, iron-curtained opaqueness, myopism, among others to name a few defects and it also shares usual and normal ivory-towered Indian Big Brother habits and practices like any other conventional “Selection Board” are not fully fault-free and flawless though no system is ideal. A Delhi High-Court Chief Justice was not elevated to Supreme Court only because he was not in the good-books of the then CJI. Being a very much “inconvenient and independent Judge” is an open secret amongst the higher judicial circles in the country though he was made Law Commission Chairman as a “relief” and “propitiation” by the then errant CJI and the Government afterwards.
As a person having direct knowledge and very close interaction for last 40 years with the local level Munsif and Magistrate courts across the country up to the Supreme Court of India, it is my measured and weighed observations that there are black-horses and sheep clothed wolf judges with no exception to the Supreme Court who consciously sway and tilt keeping a hawk’s eye for post-retirement posting with the State/Central Government(s) as well as with very promising and highly prospective litigants whose case is heard and decided by them- a very recent past case is the episode of an Ex-CJI facing disproportionate asset case.
However, the present day Collegium System is the best of the worst and better than the NJAC. On recalling the well known Biblical analogy that a doubting Thomas is better than (untrustworthy) Judas ”shortly Thomas betters Judas, if the SC is willing for voluntarily and self-introspective corrective “check & balance” refinements. Let the Collegium System with all its inherent and inborn deficiencies and defects prevail and continue as necessary evil as the lone and only trustworthy hope of the commoners in the present day untrustworthy political system crying foul to capture and cage the Big brother SC by the NJAC Act which is trumpeted as cure and prevention rather panacea against all the judicial ills and diseases.
Your’s etc.,
Dr G.John
Dehradun
