Two news items caught my eye.
"Decks were on Wednesday cleared for impeachment proceedings against Calcutta high court judge Soumitra Sen with a judicial committee set up by Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari finding him guilty of misappropriating "large sums" of funds and making false statement regarding it. The indictment of Sen paves way for Parliament to take up the impeachment of the judge who has been found guilty of collecting Rs.33,22,800 from a purchaser of goods, keeping it in a savings bank account and misrepresenting facts to the high court" - This is great news. We all know for quite some time that the higher judiciary is corrupt and has been hiding behind laws that makes taking action against them extremely difficult. So Justice Sen has to go. If that means impeachment, so be it. Remember, Justice Dinakaran is still around, and many of his ilk.
In another news item, "the Comptroller and Auditor General has held the Telecom Minister Raja personally responsible for the sale of 2G spectrum at dirt cheap rates in 2008, resulting in a loss of up to Rs 1.70 lakh crore to the national exchequer" - and pray what is the action taken against Raja? None!!!! Because the PM cannot sack him as he belongs to one of the alliance partners party-DMK.
I would be aggrieved if I were Justice Sen. He misappropriated only a paltry Rs 33 odd lakhs and gets impeached. 33 lakhs is loose change compared to Rs 1.70 lakh crores. And the culprit goes scot free.
P.S: Do you know how many zero's are there in 1.70 crores? Well I didn't. But I found out. It is Rupees 1.7 followed by 12 (Twelve) Zeros!!!!
