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:
Posted by
Barry Pittard on May 1, 2011
QUOTE
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).