Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar besides being an IIT has also mastery in trying to fish in troubled waters. He must be longing to carve and create an occasion to corner me. Much as he may have liked, but I have done absolutely nothing wrong in writing to the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court and to the Chief Justice of India that Justice U.V. Bakre had committed a grave judicial impropriety by having along with his wife as ‘Dampatya’ graced a puja performed at the private office of Advocate General Atmaram Nadkarni. As a citizen and more so being an officer of the Court, have only acted according to the well-established rules of propriety and decorum in bringing this very inappropriate and unholy act by Judge Bakre to the notice of the Chief Justices to ensure purity in the judiciary. While always upholding the majesty of the Court, have and will continue in fearlessly high lighting every impropriety committed by any judicial officer. This has to be done to ensure that the very sacred independence and sovereignty of the Judiciary is not compromised. Interaction between Judges and Advocates should be strictly restricted to the Court room. Besides what a Judge does even in his private life, cannot remain private, as a Judge is a public man, open to public scrutiny even of his private life, as any other public servant. Many in the legal fraternity privately grieve and are very concerned about the current sad state of the Judiciary in Goa. For obvious reasons many may not dare to speak openly. But have never and will never compromise on my freedom of speech and expression to only be in good books with the Judges. Hosting Judges should never be on any advocate’s menu but sadly arranging those slanted ‘fishy’ spirited dinners has become an art Senior Advocate Saresh Lotlikar thrives on. As lawyers we should never manipulate and extract favourable orders from Judges. All we have to hope is that Justice and nothing but only Justice will emanate from every Temple of Justice. At all times we have to ensure that no weapon is used to silence the Voice of Truth. Would rather go to jail than be a mere spectator to the further degeneration of the Judiciary which today still remains as the last and only ray of hope for victims of injustice. Andrew Jackson the seventh President of the United States of America had said “All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary”
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 03:55:49 +0000
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