EDITORIAL
Friends At the outset wishing all our readers and the nation a GREAT & PEACEFUL NEW YEAR full of sustained growth with equity. Looking back over the last month’s happening, there was this touching article – close to 1000 words – in 'The Hindu' by one of the most respected judicial luminaries, Justice V R Krishna Iyer, on the reported statement by the Attorney General Goolam Essaji Vahanvati in the Supreme Court, to the bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia himself. Responding to the writ petition questioning the appointment of C.V.C., the Attorney General made this extra-ordinary oral statement on behalf of the central government, “If the criterion of impeccable integrity has to be included, then every judicial appointment can be subject to scrutiny. Every judicial appointment will be challenged”. It is only fair that Justice Iyer felt deeply outraged at this impudent utterance from the top legal spokesman of the Union government and by extension, of the country. His sa...