Blood,now

But we can stop being bloody-minded,now that the Supreme Court has awarded relief from this ordeal. Exasperated,Justices Deepak Verma and S.J. Mukhopadhaya have struck down Tiwaris appeal in a lower court. They have instructed the civil surgeon of Dehradun to go to Tiwaris home on May 29,syringe at the ready,and bring em back alive. Tiwaris corpuscles,that is. The circumstantial evidence against Tiwari is already compelling. If you are so clean,why dont you give the sample? the court has asked,displeased with Tiwaris evasion of court orders.

However,the case is scarcely closed and public expectations vary. A section is optimistic,reading the persistence of the courts against a prominent political personality as a sign that the legal system,to which the powerful are perceived to be immune,is committed to applying the rule of law even-handedly. Others recall past fiascoes. Wasnt there a controversy over the Amar Singh CD because two labs produced different results? And didnt Ajmal Kasabs DNA sample,sent to Pakistan,turn out to be someone elses? If a similar clerical error finds play here,Tiwari could be revealed to be the father of some unsuspecting citizen,embarrassing both parties. That would prolong the case even further,but at least it would take a vastly entertaining turn.