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Asian Age 2-4-2001
There is no law in the country at present to bring to
book the assistants to politicians who wield enormous power in government
and amass a lost of wealth by corrupt means, Supreme Court judge, Justice
K.T. Thomas said on Sunday.
“The legislature should think of 4enacting a law to
bring these corrupt people to book,” the judge said, while delivering
the second D.P. Kohli Memorial Lecture to mark the foundation day of the
Central Bureau Investigation.
Lamenting the delay in disposal of cases, he said the
legislative mandate that no supervisor court can stay trial proceedings
was not known to many courts and still stays were being granted on trial
proceeding.
Speaking about the confidence of people in CBI,
Justice Thomas said the tentacles of corruption have spread far and wide
among the administrators of the country and added there was no easy
solution to it. Indirectly referring to Tehelka, he said : “Problems of
corruption are more deep rooted than the remedy provided under the
Prevention of Corruption Act.”
Chief Vigilance Commissioner N. Vittal
described corruption to be more vicious than the dreaded AIDS and
said: “ If corruption is brain behind it while the corruption by the
politicians formed its heart.”
He referred to judiciary as the Kidney which does not
allow a person to die by separating out the poision from spreading into
the blood circulation and said CVC was part of the kidney.
Comparing corruption to AIDS, Mr. Vital said, while
AITS was caused by uncontrolled sexual behavior, corruption was caused by
“uncontrolled financial behavior among the people leading to financial
rape and financial adultery.”
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