SC refuses to give exemption to
Jayalalithaa from personal appearance in court
What an
irony is this! The people who are elected by the people to represent them in
the government are the ones most corrupt. These corrupt people are always in the
lookout to grab power to get away from their corruption related cases by giving
lame excuses. Time has certainly changed from the past when a minister or an
influential politician could easily get away from cases against them simple by
delay tactics. Today in India the people have become more awaken in nature to
understand how they have been fooled since the independence in 1947.
The Tamil
Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha may have captured the power of the state from
another corrupt party DMK; but she forgets that cases against her are in the
court relating to corruption. The disproportionate asset case against her is
pending in the Karnataka trial court and she has been summoned by the court to
be present there, which she does not want to do. It was not accepted by the
court; hence she went to Supreme Court to get the exemption from present in the
trial court personally. The bench of SC Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma
could not find any merit to give her exemption on grounds Salve mentioned and
gave Salve one weeks time to get her preferable time to inform to the court. The
bench has accepted the security concern of Jayalalitha, the current chief
minister of TN and assured Salve that it would order the trial court to arrange
adequate security for the chief minister on the fixed date of her appearing in
the court.
The way
the country’s Apex Court is behaving these days seems to be much different from
days gone by. Had the same behavior was maintained all along after the
independence, this rotten system would not have created in the first place?
As all corrupt
politicians say, Jayalalitha too tried to get away by saying that the DMK
government filed cases against her for political reasons. If we believe her,
then she should have appeared in the court long before and proved that she is
no way involved in any corruption. In this
particular case she has been accused to have accumulated rupees 66 crores in
the period between 1991 and 1996.