CHEATING JUDGES …….

It in response to the news item “Judges writing LLM examination caught copying”

The issue is not the suspension of the judges by the Andhra Pradesh High Court for cheating in their first year of LLM examination, but the bigger question is that is it sufficient to have same punishment under the law for the same offense for all.

I was pondering if the punishment for breaking traffic rules by a commoner and a traffic police person should be same. Punishment for a police officer or a judicial officer engaged in smuggling, rape, theft or murder be same as for an established gangster or criminal. Atrocities on women or domestic violence for an educated high profile person and a slum dweller should invite same quantum of punishment.

Any person with normal IQ would agree that the treatment of the cases against those in power / custodians of law / public figures / educated / etc., should be entirely different, not only different but it should be most deterrent and passed on at the fastest possible pace. At times one is constrained to believe that the delay is by design for the people to forget. The people who are in public domain and are in the know of the nitty-gritty of the law use it to their advantage. First response as that they have been framed, then they get sick to avoid arrest. Just we have heard that CBI has stated that they are ready to file a charge sheet against a high profile politician of UP after years have lapsed. People indulging in contempt of the court are also generally public figures and one sees that nothing happens to them. Recent visuals of a tea stall owner in Mumbai being beaten blue and black by a police man with his belt, who himself was in drunk as per police report, in full public view were quite disturbing. Police official claimed that the person was doing dadagiri, is this the way to impose authority?

These serious issues should be addressed and public opinion built up. This important responsibility can only be shouldered by the medial