Continued indifference and nonchalance exhibited by the Government towards expeditiously pursuing the cases of large scale corruption in Consumers Affairs and Public Distribution System Department in the State makes people raise their finger towards Government agencies like the police, vigilance, Crime Branch etc. Cases are pending since 2007 and it is a clear indication that the indicted persons are using political influence to procrastinate the cases so that these die natural death. While commenting on 172 officials of CAPD Department who have been indicted for corruption, we had, in an earlier editorial, hinted that there could be nexus between the vested interests and the Government should expose the case fully. But it seems that the Government intentionally does not want to expedite these cases and pursue them in the court of law.
CAPD has come under banner for its many misdeeds and misappropriations. The High Court hearing a PIL has ordered the Government to submit detailed list of moveable and immoveable properties of the 172 CAPD officials involved in the scam. That is court order and the Government will have to execute it somehow. But what we are focusing at is the action which the Government should have taken in this case and other cases long ago without waiting for the decision or the order from the court. Is this a way of passing the buck and letting the court become the institution that will run the affairs and duties of the Government. It will be a sad day for democracy in our state if the executive organ shuns its normal duties and passes on the buck to the judiciary so as not to lose the goodwill of the people to whom it has to go for votes.
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