The shocking remarks of a High court in a PIL filed over setting up of a
nuclear reactor need to be protested widely.
""This is a frivolous petition ," said a division bench and asked the
petitioner, how a housewife got to know of the details of the nuclear plant.
The petitioner, Rani Diwekar , said that she had got the information on the
subject from the internet.
"Don't rely on everything that you see on the internet," said the judges,
adding that they would not hesitate to impose "exemplary costs" on such
frivolous petitions. "
Firstly this very question as to 'how a housewife got to know the details of
a nuclear plant' is definitely demeaning to a woman in this modern age where
anyone can have access to education, technology and justice. Cannot a
modern housewife have the ability to research and gather information on
economic, social and political affairs in her country?
Secondly, to say 'don't rely on everything that you see on the internet' is
again contradictory. Is everything that is reported in the newspapers
factual? If not, then how do courts consider suo moto PILs based on press
reports?
Thirdly, this courage of abusing litigants and ascribing motives,
particularly when it comes to soc conceived development projects or
government policy, arises from the fact that the people of this country have
reposed too much faith in a judicial system wrecked with bias,
contradictions and cronism. The people's courts, call them kangaroo courts,
banana courts or whatever, are the only way to beat back the repression and
oppression of the State and the capitalists.
Often, this nation is taken for a ride by some activists who drag anything
and everything to court and let it rot there for years thus killing public
momentum for obtaining policy change from the State.
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