K.N. Bhat

Apr 15, 2011
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Immoral qualms

Can the Union law minister come to the rescue where health ministers have failed? I am referring to the unending chain of deaths of infants in hospitals in West Bengal during the last few days that was followed by an acid bath to a lady still to recover from post-natal trauma. Early this year, over 16 expectant

Want to grant bail? Conditions apply

Why should arguments on bail applications consume days together? Thereafter, why can’t the judge pronounce orders forthwith? And why should the judge keep adjourning such matters?

Lokpal and the game of heads or tails

Nature, it is said, abhors a vacuum. Jayaprakash Narayan filled the vacuum in 1974-75.

Lokpal and the game of heads or tails

N ature, it is said, abhors a vacuum. Jayaprakash Narayan filled the vacuum in 1974-75. And in 2011, when Delhi got engulfed by scams — CWG, 2G spectrum, people wre fed up, but had no shoulder to cry on. Then, Anna

You’ve been served

The report of Karnataka Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde is finally out. It is now clear that, like the proverbial bikini, what the leaked report revealed was suggestive, but what it concealed was vital. The most vital part of the report presented today to the state chief secretary is that Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa committed
offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Get on with Lokpal, without PM

Corruption in public offices is an ancient and chronic evil recognised as such by repeated legislative measures.
(1) The Indian Penal Code, enacted in 1860, had an entire chapter on bribery.

(2) The Special Police Force of 1943, set up under the War Department for the purpose of investigating offences of bribery and corruption, was continued as the Delhi Special Police Establishment, and thus the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) came into existence, to probe corruption cases.

The long rope gallows

Way back in the year 1978, Sunil Batra, a convict in a sensational bank robbery cum murder case awaiting confirmation of death sentence, moved the Supreme Court complaining about the agony of waiting and living in solitary confinement while his appeal against the conviction was pending. Apart from laying down the law, the apex court’s landmark judgment

Sleepless at the booth

“Seventeen-hundred complaints by the Election Commission (EC) — estimated `5,000 to `10,000 crores of unaccounted money distributed among voters in addition to freebies like laptops and colour television.” This is the summary of electioneering 2011 in Tamil Nadu. The money and the TV sets were all distributed after the election process commenced and before the voting took place. Do our laws tolerate this situation?

Trust no one

The nation feels relieved that social activist Anna Hazare has ended his fast. But if the Jan Lokpal Bill he has been pushing becomes a law, Mr Hazare may have to undertake yet another fast demanding its repeal because the intended institution to deal with corruption in high places is more likely to be a parallel body that

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