<< Prev Page    |    1    |    2    |    3    |    4    |    5    |    6    |    7    |    8    |    9    |    10    |    Next Page >> WHY INDIA IS DEVOID OF RULE OF LAW? Balbir Singh Sooch M.A., L.L.B., Advocate Sikh Vichar Manch Dedicated to The Spirit of Millennium World Peace Summit August 2000. 3 Preface Perfidious India This booklet is written to expose the misdeeds of the corrupt nexus, sufferings of the downtrodden and causes of discrimination to the minorities having different faiths at the hands of corrupt Indian rulers, for seeking remedial action and to have peace in the Indian subcontinent by observing the rule of law. The booklet in hand is a treatise on Rule of Law in India. The author, a well-known lawyer from Ludhiana, Panjab, has touched a delicate and complicated yet important subject: corruption. This malaise has eaten into the vitals of Indian psyche. The author rues the day when cunning politicians prevailed upon bureaucrats to join them in their impious, perfidious and corrupt practices. Subsequently, the Bench and the Bar were roped into the nexus. This is the nexus, which seems to be the root cause of crime, corruption, treason, treachery, hawala and exploitation of poor Indians. This nexus has eradicated human values from the body politic of the so-called democratic and independent India. balbir Singh Sooch, the author has tried to awaken the conscience of people. ‘Facta non verba’ (deeds, not words) are required to save the country from the clutches of the wild animals of this nexus. ‘Dirty money’ has killed probity of the Rule of Law and has pushed aside morality and ethics. The author has brought the subjects of the Rule of Law, rampant corruption, depravity and nexus between the politicians, judiciary and the subservient bureaucracy on the canvas. It is pertinent that recently, the President of India in his address to the people of India, on the eve of the 53rd anniversary of Indian Independence, spoke of the condition of society after Independence, especially the new affluence of the privileged classes. Lamenting the deterioration of Rule of Law in India, the Indian President regretted that law-enforcing agencies remain indifferent or ineffective and that law itself remains awfully inadequate, with crimes against women on the rise. No place is safe for them, not even their own homes, said the President. He further bemoaned that a negligible number of accused hauled for rape, molestation and abduction get convicted because of the criminal-politician-judge nexus. TThe writer has practical knowledge of corruption prevailing in the administration as well as the Judiciary-the two pillars of democracy. He has a long experience of dealing with the executive and legal fora. In addition to his being a post-graduate, having degree in law from Panjab University, he has also served the Indian Air Force. Balbir Singh Sooch is a human rights activist in his own right. He is a writer of the masses. He has written a book entitled ‘Samen Da Sachch’ (Sikh Dukhant) exposing the faithlessness and hypocrisy of Sikh leaders. Being a product of a middle class rural agriculturist family of Malwa region of Panjab, he understands the miseries and difficulties of the not-so-rich rural populace, which is being exploited by the urban commercial sector in collaboration with the bureaucracy and the judiciary. A sufficiently long period of practice has added to his personal knowledge about the degeneration of the political system, which has usurped the powers of the judiciary. In turn, the judiciary has lost its lustre, due to its own weaknesses and love for “goddess Lakshmi”. Let us see, how the conscience-keepers of India react. August 15, 2000    << Prev Page    |    1    |    2    |    3    |    4    |    5    |    6    |    7    |    8    |    9    |    10    |    Next Page >>