It was a childhood fantasy once upon a time for every mother to sing the lullaby of the beautiful moon being beckoned to hush her child to a sweet,sleep...Likewise, she would goad the child to study the three R-s diligently so that he may don the mantle of a judgeship in the society on growing up .In contrast , the fear of the 'friendly,pot-bellied,neighbourhood' policeman coming to grab him and lock him up would be driven to instill a sense of 'fear' in the mischievous brat...aah,those were indeed fairy-tale days of our own world it seems ...!!
...Especially when one reads of cops molesting girls roaming about in public parks and of cops being exposed as being on the pay-roll of the mafiaso - desi versions though it be...What is even more perplexing and preposterous is the current controversy dug up by the supposedly High Office of the Hon'ble Chief Justice of INDIA being dragged to a verbal duel by one of his 'own' subordinate judges doing duty in another part of the Nation on the bounden duty or otherwise of the Judges to declare their assets to become data faling under the Public domain...!!
Of late ,it has become fashonable for so-called social activists and learned ,aware and busybodies in the society to call upon all public servants ,officials and others holding key portifolios to declare their respective 'personal'-assets .Whilst the demand persists for making it a mandatory act on part of the judges of the different High Courts and Hon'ble Supreme Court of India to make their assets public ,the Union Government has chosen to leave the issue to the better wisdom of the Judiciary .And, the Chief Justice of INDIA has gone on record saying that it is upto the concerned Judges to file their personal-assets declarations to the concerned Chief Justice whereas those in the Hon'ble Supreme Court shall so do it to the serving Chief Justice of India ....!1
Fairly acceptable but out crys one from the elite group of the judges who as a singular cry in the wild protested the 'power' of the C.J.I. to so announce .And, it ought to have rested there but pat comes a rejoinder from the incumbent C.J.I. reiterating that the Judiciary is a 'big institution' and no one judge's remarks can bring any kind of embarrasment to the Judiciary...!!
True, the embarrassment is felt by us all humble WE,THE PEOPLE who until now held the sanctimoious office of a Judgeship in very high esteem and the 'Institution' itself seemed to be a 'Temple of Justice' never to let any one of its flock err from the path of conservativeism,righteousness and virtuosity ...But then,all men are men , isn't it folks ?
Part of one's life as a Judge perpetually trying is the traditional culture of education in which even the slightest deviation from norms is considered sinful...!!
Crying 'wolf ' often doesn't help either the illiterate shepherd-boy in the fable nor these elite of the enlightened ,modern,evolved society either ...Hence, an oath of 'no utterances to be made on any controversial subject of public importance which would have wide ranging ramifications and ipact in an unequal society ' should be administered to those desirous of donning the posts of respectability and judgeship .Besides, 'once a judge ,always a judge' - policy may be adopted in or country too to ensure 'disciplining' of the human-beings who 'rise' to such exalted positions of pelf,power and pride...!!
Silence of the lambs is more welcome a sound than the snoring of the bullocks in the grazing-fields of a modern world,I dare say .Would you concur?
