LAW AND ORDER IN OUR NATION Reading an article on doctors versus judges on why it is unfair for doctors to get punished for wrong diagnosis/operations, not judges for wrong judgements struck me as very relevant. Litigants have gone through jail/suffering due wrong judgements proved later on?Whole families have sufferred. Doctors may have less time to diagnose than judges to give decisions? In the dowry directions of July 2017, the police reportedly had no powers to directly arrest unless they go through a Family Welfare Committee. This must have been ordered to prevent corruption and excesses by the police, as there were many cases of dowry harassment due vendatta and other reasons! It therefore struck me as odd that without carrying out the much needed police reforms and with our apparently trigger happy "caged parrots" these days, the Committee is now done away with, by a bench chaired by the CJI. Police powers are restored with certain cautions which are subjective. Also to state that the previous direction was " not in accordance with the statutory framework" diminishes the learned Supreme Court judges who took that decision?The real reason is bad governance. The Legislature and the Executive are responsible for bad laws/ too many laws and selective or poor implementation. The judiciary is forced by PILs and observing trampling of human rights to come to the rescue/ issue orders in public interest. 74 year old Swami Agnivesh manhandled twice by right wing activists with impunity was toll by the Supreme Court to approach the High Court for a CBI probe since "Wecan't prevent threats to our lives, how can we prevent these to you?". What kind of governance is this?
