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It showed the revulsion of the people with regard to state of affairs and governance.
It is not that only the top court is concerned with regard to governance, the annoyance has run down deep to lower judiciary as well.
That’s why, a chief magisterial court while allowing CBI to drop criminal charges against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi in over two-decade-old Bofors pay off case referred to the plight of common man.
Plain speak
“Can we allow this hard earned money of ‘aam aadmi’ of India to be spent on these types of proceedings which are not going to do any good to them, after almost 25 years of the so called ‘arms deal’. The answer would be a big ‘NO’,” CMM Vinod Yadav said, reading out the judgement.
“While we are busy in discussing the Sensex and scams, India’s poorest are barely surviving, thanks to an appalling governance deficit. In some areas of our country, we have no electricity, no roads, no proper water facilities; 50% of India lives on less than US $ 2 a day; 100 million childen go to bed hungry every night; 62% live without electricity and in some of the areas, the villages are another heart of India’s darkness,” the magisterial court said in its order on Bofors case.
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