A Strange Pattern

THIS refers to your report, ‘Now two suicides blow up in CBI’s Dubey face’ (IE, February 2). A witness disappea...

THIS refers to your report, ‘Now two suicides blow up in CBI’s Dubey face’ (IE, February 2). A witness disappears and two suspects commit suicide. How strange can it get? Makes one wonder if anyone in Bihar or in Delhi is pulling strings to punch holes in the case. It also appears the CBI has failed to provide protection to the witness and the suspects. The corruption lobby is extremely powerful in Bihar and in Delhi. They will go to any length to stop the case going to a judge. Justice and the prime minister’s office has failed Dubey and the nation too.

— Arvind Amin On e-mail

Us and Them

• ONE must give credit to the BBC’s chairman for his prompt resignation. He has been true to journalistic ethics after being censored by the verdict of Lord Hutton. The question remains, though: how many of the so called champions of journalistic ethics in this country would have done the same.

— N.K. Pandit On e-mail

Unholy union

• THE Ahmedabad incident of a magistrate issuing warrants of arrest to the President of India and the Chief Justice for some consideration exposes the corruption in the lower judiciary in the country.

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It is only thanks to the apex court that four accomplices of Veerappan have been given death sentences while the arch criminal remains at large by the tacit complicity of the state governments. The present state government, to appease the bandit, would even direct the TADA court in Mysore to release his accomplices by an order. The court obliged but now thanks to the apex court, the criminals are to be exterminated.

If the apex court orders an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the Karnataka Government’s order to release the assailants of Veerapan gang — now given death sentence — it will find the unholy union of the executive and the judiciary which will help stem such corruption in the future.

— Manohar Paul Bangalore

Changed polity

• NEERJA CHOWDHURY’S article ‘The beta beti brigade’ (IE, January 26) is one of the many articles appearing in the media on the likely political scenario after the next LS elections. I believe that the news of the fifth generation of the Nehru-Gandhi family taking the plunge into politics has created more heat then light. All the calculations are unrealistic and Delhi will remain door from Sonia Gandhi’s grip.

Over the last eight years the country’s political scenario has completely changed. While the Congress’s fortunes have been going down hill since 1984 and the party is still caught in the dynasty syndrome, the fortunes of the BJP have been on the ascendancy and it has the support of the RSS along with front organisations including the Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram, which played a big role in winning state elections in
December 2003.

— V. Sagar Delhi

Leaky law

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• THE law is the guardian of order in a society. But given the loopholes in our judicial system, I wonder if it’ll ever perform that role. The acquittal of the 11 accused in the Roop Kanwar case is very unfortunate, considering the long wait for ‘‘justice’’. If only our legal system wasn’t so ‘‘flexible’’ and dealt strictly with the offenders, we would have better faith in it.

— Deepshikha Monga On e-mail

The final electoral roll for Bihar is scheduled to be published on September 30. (File)

Supreme Court asks EC to consider Aadhaar as valid ID for Bihar voter rolls

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The Supreme Court has ordered the Election Commission to accept Aadhaar cards as a valid document for voter identification during the electoral roll revision in Bihar. The court has stressed on the importance of only allowing genuine citizens to vote and excluding those with forged documents. The EC has received numerous claims and objections for inclusion and exclusion in the final roll.

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