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| Hang corrupt from lamp post: Indian Supreme Court |
| 2007-03-07 |
| Memo to Mr Prasad: You know your appeal isn't going well when a supreme court justice says he would like to hang you from a lamp post. I suggest you start begging. Now. Observing that everyone wants to loot this country, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said the only panacea to rid the country of corrupt elements was to hang a few of them from the lamp post. "The only way to rid the country of corruption is to hang a few of you on the lamp post. The law doesn't permit us to do it but otherwise we would prefer to hang people like you from the lamp post," a Bench of Justices SB Sinha and Markandeya Katju remarked during arguments put forth by counsel for an accused. As counsel R Singh tried to make some submission, Justice Katju further said, "Everywhere, we have corruption. Nothing is free from corruption. Everybody wants to loot this country. The only solution for this menace is to hang some people in the public so that it acts as a deterrent for others." The Bench's scathing observations came during the hearing of a bail application moved by one Braj Bhushan Prasad, a dismissed employee of Bihar Government for his alleged involvement in the Rs 1000 crore fodder scam in which the name of Railway Minister Lalu Yadav had also figured prominently. The counsel's submission that Bhushan was a mere budget accounts officer further infuriated the Bench, which observed "Look at that! you are supposed to audit the funds, but see what you have done." |
| Posted by:John Frum |
| #1 Can we recruit this guy as a Supreme Court judge? |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-03-07 17:13 |