Judiciary is dead in India. Deep are buried its bones and conscience is like a snakes slough that judges shed with each unjust judgment. Justice Ranganath Mishras report on anti-Sikh riots is neither unexpected nor unusual. It is a faithful endorsement of the government version and brings into focus the extent of depravity to which judiciary is being prostituted to protect the foulest acts of the ruling coteries.
Mishra has reportedly exonerated all the villains of the ghastly drama and issued a clean chit to Rajiv Gandhi’s party. Contrary to all eye-witness accounts, circumstantial evidence and public investigation reports, he dismissed the generally accepted charge that the violence was engineered by a group as unfounded. He confirmed the government interpretation that the holocaust was “a spontaneous act of anger”,
The report has conclusively proved that judiciary is only a decorative instrument that is being maintained by the Indian rulers to dupe the free world into believing that some semblance of democracy obtains in India. It also proves that Sikhs can never ever expect justice in the present set up. When Mishra constituted and its terms of reference finalized, it was abundantly clear what its judgment would be. In fact, World Sikh News had editorially predicted that Mishra Commissions report would be written in Prime Ministers secretariat and like a rubber stamp “Justice” Mishra would affix his signatures. That’s how it turned out to be.
Death of judiciary is an ominous development that forebodes ill for Indian unity. Such judgments will accelerate the Process of disintegration and posterity will hold the present rulers fully responsible for the breakup of what is now called India.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 29, 1986
