Judicial cadre officials' self-demeaning behaviour
THERE was everything rowdy about it, all of this outrageously repugnant to any sensibilities of civilised conduct that any number of educated citizens, let alone members of an organised service cadre are expected to exemplify by their behaviour, especially under public gaze. And, when such expectations are belied by men dealing with law and justice, they resorting to rowdy behaviour, what is their marker of distinction from a mob?
In an unprecedented act of collective misdemeanour, 70-80 judicial cadre officials coming in six microbuses rushed through the secretariat gate, converged around law minister's chamber, raised a hell-fire yelling names of some officials and insisted on meeting the minister to press home their demands. They broke every rule of the book, that they were supposed to uphold, with utter disdain. They had no entry passes to the secretariat, no appointment with the minister, and yet they demanded to see him. And when the policemen on security duty were trying to do their job, the agitating judges reacted angrily.
The demands they were articulating are hardly matters for public demonstration, as these had to do with mobile court ordinance empowering the executive magistrate to arrest or penalise offenders, separation of the legislative and parliamentary wing from the law and justice affairs wing under the ministry of law, justice and parliamentary affairs and framing of the rules of business. If the judicial officers had any point to make pertaining to the changes in line with the separation of the judiciary from the executive they could articulate the same through their association rather than barging into the secretariat and creating a scene that adversely reflected on their reputation. Some of them even came from outlying areas without prior permission leaving their posts unattended, just to jump into the bandwagon in a show of strength as if brandishing a collective armour of impunity to force the government's hands into doing something that basically required civilised deliberation to be sorted out. It shames us to say that they should behave.
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