IGP's case
Recently, we have seen a contempt of court case resulting in conviction and punishment of a very senior member of the executive i.e. the inspector general of police. As the head of the police department, he defended his subordinate in a manner which was treated as an act of contempt by the court. The IGP could feel the nerve of the court and subsequently he tendered his apology. But the court did not accept the apology. The IGP got a punishment which cost him his job as well as future prospects.
I have no comments at this stage and have to accept the present approved procedures of dispensation of justice. I hope the government must have taken serious note of this episode. It must now legislate a law to create equilibrium between various organs (executive, legislature and judiciary) in such a way that none of them could get supremacy over the other.
Finally, I would humbly suggest that any inter-organ conflict should be referred to the President who will act as a neutral referee and will exercise full powers for disciplinary action against any member of the three organs found at fault for some reason or the other.
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