Pasting a comment (posted by Dileep) in kafila in response to an article ( http://kafila.org/2009/12/10/whos-at-jihad-love-jihad-and-the-judge-in-kerala/ )
According to my knowledge, the controversial judge Mr. K.T. Shankaran was a former member of Akhil Bharathiya Vidhyarthi Parishad, the student wing of RSS. If you look at the legacy of the judging patterns of this hindu right wing man, i am sure that you will find him soon in BJP ranks like Justice Guman Lal Lodha. In 2007, Justice Shankaran along with Justice H L Dathu stayed Raja Ravi Varma Award on artist MF Husain. Almost all pro-Hindutva outfits have been raising that campaign against the Government’s move to fete Husain. In 1949, the Ayodhya district magistrate K.K. Nair opened the locks of the Babri Masjid for Hindutva outfits. In return RSS provided him parliament membership. There are plenty of Judges and high ranking civil officials in the country who are breed by ABVP and ready to take the rule of law for their own agenda. These kind of Babu Bajrangi’s don’t have any respect to secular credentials of Republic of India. As long as the illiterate masses are the majority of this land, the upper caste mafia will controle the act of defining the law. A 2005 countrywide survey done by Centre for Media Studies for Transparencey International finds that a very high 77 percent of respondents believe the Indian judiciary is corrupt. The survey found that bribe around 580 million US$ was paid during 12 months. Money was paid to the officials in the following proportions: 61 percent to lawyers; 29 percent to court officials; 5 percent to middlemen.” Between 1950 to 2000, 47% of Chief Justices and 40% of Judges were of Brahmin origin!. Dalits and Indian aborigines are lesser than 20 out of 610 judges working in Supreme Court and state high Courts. - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
