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Hats off to former Chief Justice of India J.S.Verma for publicity asking the CJI to disclose his property details. We need greater transparency to enhance the prestige of judiciary, Justice Verma rightly feels. We must recall that he is the same Judge who had unveiled and exposed the world of hawala transacting fearlessly.

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SAVING ASIATIC LION
Newspapers have reported five incidents of fire in the Indian bastion of Asiatic lions in last fourteen months. Gir is well-known as the last refuge with a core area of 258 sq.kms in Junagadh district of Gujarat.. The recent fire raged across tall grasslands of Mitiala range on 17th and 18th February'09 and was spread across 300 hectares of sanctuary area. Though loss of animal life has not been notified so far, such recurrent fires are liable to disorient the lions who are known to be fiercely territorial in living habits.
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Need to Revitalize Crime Administration.
A couple of developments in the past five weeks have left the countrymen bewildered. They are equally clueless about the shape of things to come. In the last week of December, 2008 policemen in Puducherry gathered at the premises of Principal District and Sessions Court and staged a protest against refusal of bail to a sub-inspector who was caught red-handed by the CBI while collecting bribe money from an advocate. In January 2008, an IPS Officer of 1995 batch was arrested by the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism squad on recovery of nearly 40 Kgs of white heroin with Pakistani markings. This officer is posted as the Deputy Director of the Enforcement Directorate at Kochi in his home State. Prior to this, he was posted at an equally prestigious/challenging assignment - the Zonal Director, Narcotics Control Bureau, Chandigarh. Newspapers have also carried stories of Chief Justice of India permitting the CBI to question serving Judges of the High Courts at Allahabad and Chandigarh after the arrest of a Court official at Ghaziabad and an additional advocate general at Chandigarh in two different cases. Last week also witnessed a countrywide strike by lawyers against the passage of Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2008 which introduced a new and rationalized section 41. This insertion limits the powers of police to arrest anyone "concerned" with a cognizable offence. Mercifully, police officers all over the country have not reacted to this restriction. Surprisingly, nobody has protested against the pendency of nearly three crore cases in various Courts!!...

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MUMBAI - REVISITED

" Three blasts greet Chidu on first NE trip" exclaimed the newspapers on 2nd January. They were referring to three blasts in Gawahati which not only coincided with the first visit of the new Home Minister but were exploded on the eve of P.M.'s visit to Shillong. They not only heralded the advent of 2009 but also reminded that the nation cannot be caught with pants down like on 26th November when most of the bureaucrats /police officials who mattered were busy with parties allowing the terrorists to set up a new bench mark in terror.
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DNA Mumbai reported recently that Shri V.Mahadevan, a former Managing Director of the State Bank of India was convicted by a Special CBI court for misusing his official position to obtain shares and debentures of companies at prices lower than the prevailing market prices. He was arrested six days before his retirement on June 14, 1993. At the age of 74 years he has been convicted for making pecuniary gains of over Rs.19 lakhs in 1993, a little after the Harshad Mehta scam.
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