Indian Ex-Chief Justice Bhagwati – by a former contact

A good friend of mine, an Indian gentleman living in Europe, wrote to me after the exposure of Former Chief Justice P.N. Bhagwati in the Indian press (my recent blog: Sathya Sai Baba’s bent judge, P.N. Bhagwati is shamed)

Corruption by an ordinary man  may have some impact on the whole but when a judge is corrupt he does much too much harm. Having met several supreme court judges and conversed with them I found most of them corrupt, confused and conceited. When I met them I just observed, listened and  suspended judgement; now, on hindsight, I can say that these are corrupt men. The following quotes help to substantiate my statement. Whenever I met Justice P.N.Bhagwathi  he always talked about Sai Baba of Puttaparthi, who I am convinced was a criminal and a psychopath. With judges and politicians in your pocket you could do anything in India, but apparently perhaps not anymore! http://www.firstpost.com/politics/a-chief-justice-of-india-says-i-am-sorry-but-thirty-years-too-late-85799.html

However, I met one truly upright, innocent and fearless judge  : Justice H.R.Khanna, the man mentioned in the aforementioned article. He had only the money that RBI granted as travel allowance, when I noticed that he was upright I provided him chauffeur driven car for the whole day, took him to Van Gogh and Rijks Museums, introduced him to the director of Indian Tourist Office and told that gentleman to take him to a good Indian restaurant that evening. I treated him with the respect I would offer my parents and my beloved teacher.

He was genuinely egalitarian and was free of cultivated modesty or that conceit which is a disease among our  judges.  He treated my chauffeur with respect, a very unusual thing for an Indian.
Shree

Read  the letters of Justice Khanna  and Krishna Iyer to my friend:-

PS: I found justice Krishna Iyer quite a character, he claimed to be communist and was desperately seeking mediums. He is obviously confused, he along with
Bhagwathi promoted our corrupt Godmen- some Communist!  P.S.  I haven’t met the present CJI, but he must be an upright man with no apparent leanings to the left or right.