An Indian Bureaucrat's Diary

I retired as a senior officer of the Government of India after serving the Government for over 37 years.
I have also studied law and earned a doctorate (not an Honorary Doctorate) in the subject.

The recent issues, incidents and happenings brought to the public glare by Baba Ramdev and Anna Hazare, and hyped to the peak by the media, have left me totally bewildered and in a dizzy.

I have decided to go back to the very basics of corruption, political parties, and the role a government functionary like Santosh Hegde, can and should play in such matters. Read the rest of this entry »

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Supreme Court on Standard of conduct Expected from Judicial Officers

This is a bizarre story of a high handed lady magistrate in Mumbai who travelled in local travels in Mumbai without paying for her tickets.

Arundhati Ashok Walavalkar was appointed a Metropolitan Magistrate in Bombay on 28.5.1992.
She travelled between Mulund and Dadar on First Class. Read the rest of this entry »

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Corruption, Imputations and Public Outrage and Article 311(2)

The entire government machinery – the politicians and the civil servants in India – are facing the worst ever low in terms Read the rest of this entry »

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The Supreme Court of India errs – not once, twice, but thrice.
It takes the Supreme Court a fourth attempt to get it right.
Supreme Court of India New Delhi, April 22, 2010

From the highest to the lowest, from the most intelligent to the greatest duffer on earth, any one can make mistakes.
Most of us do make mistakes. Read the rest of this entry »

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It took the legal system 19 years and 400 hearings

to convict and sentence the former DGP to 6

months imprisonment and fine of Rs. 1000 for

molesting a teen……..who was driven to commit

suicide 

S S Rathore, (who retired as Director General of Police, Haryana) then a senior police officer and President of the Haryana Lawn Tennis Association molested Ruchika Girhotra, a 14-year-old tennis player in August 1990. Read the rest of this entry »

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The appointment of Chief Judges of different High Courts of India and Judges of the Supreme Court is made by the President of India (read Home Ministry) on the recommendation of a collegium of judges headed by the Chief Justice of India.
   In August 2009, the collegium comprising K.G. Balakrishnan, Chief Justice of India, Justice B.N. Agrawal, Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice Tarun Chatterjee and Justice Altamas Kabir, recommended the names of Justice P.D. Dinakaran, Read the rest of this entry »

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Supreme Court of India on our bureaucracy

Even God cannot save this country………  
Supreme Court of India, New Delhi, August 5, 2008

The Supreme Court was hearing a case relating to unauthorised occupation of Government accommodation. Read the rest of this entry »

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