Judge Desmond D’Costa’s Suspension.

The unexplained suspension of Judge Desmond D’Costa has sent shock waves not 
only among Goans in Goa but across the world.

Anyone who knows Desmond will vouch for his incredible intelligence, his 
simplicity, his honesty and above all his ability and experience to dispense 
justice. The legal fraternity in Goa know and will bear this writer that 
Desmond 
enjoys an impeccable character in general and in particular as a judicial 
officer.

The suspension of Desmond is obviously a figment of somebody’s wild 
imagination. 
Whoever  reported adversely on Desmond perhaps needs to see a psychiatrist and 
should be deemed incapable of making rational decisions and expelled from 
duties 
as a judge     

Someone said "Power of Judiciary lies not in deciding cases, nor in Imposing 
sentences nor in punishing for contempt, but in the trust, faith and confidence 
of the common  man". Obviously Desmond was well ahead of most judges of his 
time 
and emulated the best both in the present and past without succumbing to 
pressure and fear tactics.

It has been said that “Respect of Judiciary emerges from expertise to sieve out 
facts from fiction. Power of Judiciary does not lie in convicting criminals nor 
punishing for contempt but in the trust, faith and confidence of common man of 
getting justice by application of same norms, for poor or rich, by the courts“. 
 
Desmond epitomized all these characteristics of the judiciary.

Apparently Desmond may have refused to be compromise his integrity which 
resulted in swift and harsh retaliation of suspension. The existing judicial 
process is an unfair or ineffective procedure to discipline and remove corrupt 
judges and as in Desmond’s case can end up being used instead for the removal 
of 
independent, upright and progressive judges.

Desmond has always been simple,  judicious and gracious to a fault. 
Not the type to bend  to pressure or succumb to corrupt system, the Government, 
the Police and a unscrupulous breed of Judges who need excuses for their 
combined 

inability to pin down  a serial killer, to expeditiously dispense justice to 
the 
innocent 

before being proven guilty beyond doubt. 

Desmond exhibited the acumen, the wisdom and the courage to rightfully expedite 
the serial killer case.  Mahanand  Naik in all probability is a scapegoat for 
the Government
and Police’s inability to solve the unabated rise in crime rate in Goa.  Hence 
the resentment, 

the vengeance and ultimately suspension, by the  intellectually  incapacitated 
judicial official, of a luminary 

and progressive Judge that personifies Desmond D’Costa. The suspension violates 
every principle 

Of the law. 
Shame all this stink has spread beyond Goa.


John Philip Da Silva  Collaco
California, USA



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