On Sathya Sai Baba: Times of India, Ex-Chief Justice Interview. What Judge Would So Opine?

 

At 'Call For Media and Government Investigation of Sathya Sai Baba', see the article:

On Sathya Sai Baba: Times of India, Ex-Chief Justice Interview. What Judge Would So Opine?

Posted by Barry Pittard on May 1, 2011

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One may hope that no view will succeed which is of the sort that:  here is a very old man - entering his 90's. Let him have his eccentricities about his God. What harm can Bhagwati do in his dotage? After all, he no longer presides over Indian Justice.

But Bhagwati was not in his dotage down all those years when, as he now tells us, Sathya Sai Baba has been holding the jurisprudential pen.

Judges are meant to be clear, are they not? Bhagwati shows some disconcerting lapses of memory. Above all, the parents and families of those slain meters away from where Sathya Sai Baba was hiding on the other side of a locked door of his appartment on the blood-filled night of 6 June 1993 will surely want a better effort of memory from Bhagwati, once the lychpin of Indian  Justice. And from a man who is now to head the Sathya Sai Central Trust, on which he has so long served as a key member.  It  is a test of the maturity of Indian democracy and of its jurisprudence whether India continues to allow such forgetfulness.

(There follows the Times of India interview with Bhagwati, and a series of questions that Barry Pittard would like to put to him, if given half the chance).