TIB report - an eye opener
The government's reaction and negative attitude towards the TIB reports, first on the corruption among the members of the police and lately of the judiciary, was unfortunate as people of the country, not the concerned ministers, feel the pinch while seeking services. The minister and the IG refuted the report and retorted that there may be a few corrupt members in the whole set-up but that cannot call for wholesale blame.
The police use their leverage to extort money from both the sufferers and the offenders; the former pay them (police) to do the needful and the latter are forced to pay them (police) to remain inactive against them. On the streets the police are always seen to collect tolls from trucks, buses and other transports. The minister and the IG must take it for cognizance that in reality the whole organ is rotten to the core.
The precincts of Judiciary are no exception. Litigants are broke by paying money in many stages to get their cases tabled and settled. And the Law Minister should have known it best if he would have started from the lower court where allegation of receiving kickbacks by the judges is a common whisper.
I do not find any rationale for the government's getting indignant and refuting the TIB report point-blank. It is more deplorable that cases have been instituted against the TIB men. The report based on the public opinion showed how badly people are becoming victims to the menace of corruption.
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