Tarun Tejpal was denied bail by various courts, and he stayed in jail for about seven months. And then the SC grants him bail. The case for trial has not even come to a court till now. The SC judgment implies that the lower courts were wrong in not granting bail. What justice is served if Tejpal is not found guilty by the trial court? And the SC says judges should be ALLOWED to correct mistakes!!!!! Jayalalitha was sentenced by a Sessions judge. She had a right to appeal, which implies that the judgment is not final, and can be set aside in appeal. She was denied bail by the HC, and now the SC grants her bail which means that the HC was wrong. She is the elected Chief Minister of a state. Because the HC was wrong, she had to stay in jail for a number of days. And the SC says that judges should be ALLOWED to correct mistakes!!!!!! The SC has judged that politicians jailed for a certain term by a Sessions judge should immediately vacate his Assembly or Parliament seat. Does it not imply that the trial court judgment is final, and appeals and higher courts have no relevance? MLAs and MPs are elected by a considerable number of citizens and their disqualification before a final decision by the judiciary is not a joke but is against the principles of democracy. And our SC says that judges should be ALLOWED to correct mistakes.!!!!! I am not arguing for a corrupt MLA/MP, Tarun Tejpal, or a Jayalaitha , but I have a few questions to my fellow-citizens: 1. The cases referred to above are of high profile, rich people. What justice is served if the case involves you or me, the common citizen who are unable to reach the Supreme Court? 2. By allowing correction of mistakes by judges, Can the wrong done be negated. 3. The SC was very prompt in forming a panel and cleverly acquitting Justice Ganguly despite his ”unwelcome behaviour “. Why can`t our lordships find time to speedily dispose of appeals in cases involving constitutional authorities, thus acceding to democratic principles and honouring people`s right to elect their representatives without branding every political leader as corrupt? 4. By deciding that an MLA/MP is disqualified the moment a sessions court judge hands out a certain punishment to him. Thus, if a Sessions Court judge can pull down the central government by sentencing a PM by mistake, is justice served by ALLOWING the judge to correct his mistake? 5. And finally why judges are allowed to correct mistakes, while the citizens languish in jails? Why judges are not punished for grossly inappropriate and wrong judgments where grave and unretractable injustice is being handed out in a cavalier fashion?
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 09:39:14 +0000
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