The court said the term ‘corruption’ has also undergone changes. Now it has many shades. It is not confined to only bribery in cash or kind, but it as different “colours and nuances”.
Expressing anguish over the hypocrisy of the “civilized society” which publicly shows distaste for graft, the Allahabad High Court has said: “If there is one field we can boast of a national all round development and that too multifold, it is the field of corruption.”
The court said the term ‘corruption’ has also undergone changes. Now it has many shades. It is not confined to only bribery in cash or kind, but it as different “colours and nuances”.
Directing a Uttar Pradesh bureaucrat in charge of basic education, SK Tiwari, to pay Rs 2 lakh in compensation to a teacher who had been denied promotion due to “extraneous considerations”, the high court has asked the Mayawati government to pay the amount now to the aggrieved teacher, Arun Kumar Niranjan, and recover it from the officer concerned.
Justice Sudhir Agarwal slammed the BSP government for deep-rooted corruption in the education sector also, and said corruption “has penetrated so deep that it is now a difficult task to find a place untouched”.
As far as Tiwari was concerned, he “exploited primary teachers for unlawful gains”, the judge added.
The judge also regretted the inefficacy of the anti-corruption laws, saying that though there are “some statutes in the name of checking or preventing this menace (corruption), they are “virtually toothless, a paper tiger”.
“These statutes have not proved at all, in actual sense, a deterring measure, for the civil servants engaged in such activities. In fact these activities are beyond any limits and bounds and have crept in all the wings of the State, whether executive, legislature or even judiciary,” the judge added.
Anguished over the hypocrisy of the “civilized society” over it distaste for corruption, he said though corruption has always been viewed with particular distaste to be condemned and criticized by everybody, still one loves to engage himself in it “if finds opportunity, ordinarily, since it is difficult to resist temptation”.
The verdict also referred to Greek Philosopher Plato’s words that “in the Republic, only politicians who gain no personal advantage from the policies they pursued would be fit to govern. This is recognised also in the aphorism that those who want to hold power are most likely those least fit to do so”.
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