[Assam] Even God will not be able to save this country - From the TOI

[mc mahant]

The Truth is out there-- butSC bench stresses on triviality.
Maybe People have decide finally about Constitution-Government-Representation and Babus' power.
mm

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> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:00:15 -0500
> From: assamrs at gmail.com
> To: assam at assamnet.org
> Subject: [Assam] Even God will not be able to save this country - From the	TOI
> 
> It is pleasantly surprising that the SC in India has been able to muster up
> the courage to state something like this bluntly. Maybe times are a
> changing.
> 
> --Ram
> 
> PS: there are some great comments from TOI readers - see link below.
> 
> _______________
>  NEW DELHI: "Even God will not be able to save this country," a fuming
> Supreme Court on Tuesday said while slamming the government for its refusal
> to amend the law for launching criminal prosecution against those who
> illegally occupy official houses. ( Watch
> )
> 
> "We are fed up with this government," the apex court said, adding "They
> don't have the guts to differ with the opinion of the clerks."
> 
> "Even God will not be able to save this country. In India even if God comes
> down he cannot change our country. Our country's character has gone. We are
> helpless," a bench of Justices B N Aggrawal and G S Singhvi observed.
> 
> The apex court said PILs are being filed before it by people who are vexed
> with the approach of the government on various issues.
> 
> "You complain about judicial activism when you are in power. When you are
> not in power you come to us for remedy," the bench remarked.
> 
> The bench gave vent to its anger as the Additional Solicitor General
> Amarender Saran bluntly told the court that the Union government has decided
> not to amend Section 441 IPC (criminal trespass) for prosecuting squatters
> of government accommodation in the country.
> 
> The government took the stance that the existing provisions provided under
> the Public Premises Act was sufficient to evict those illegally occupying
> government accommodation. Moreover, it claimed that out of 99,100 government
> houses only 300-odd dwellings were under unauthorised occupation for which
> had been made to evict them.
> 
> But this did not satisfy the apex court which said the government does not
> have the guts to take on the offenders.
> 
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/opinions/3330091.cms
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