Saturday, March 12, 2011

CBI's discriminatory treatment

The officials of CBI questioned the wife and daughter of the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu on 11th March in connection with the 2G scam. There is nothing exceptional about this. But what is alarmingly discriminatory and blatantly cursory was the fact that the questioning was done not at the premises of CBI as is usually the case but at the office of Kalaignar TV. If the suspects are questioned in their own place, the CBI officials cannot even meaningfully discuss among themselves  for fear that the place may contain eavesdropping devices. Would this option of choosing the place of questioning be made available to all citizens of the country? We are a democracy, are n't we? Only in a dictatorship, such privileges are partisanly extended to cronies of the dictator.

The Supreme Court has ensured that the CBI would expedite investigations in this telecom muddle. Can it also ensure that the investigation would be fair and politically unbiassed? Only the future will tell.

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