It goes without saying that our superior courts do provide justice to the litigants who knock their doors but it is also a reality that every Tom, Dick and Harry cannot move the high courts or the Supreme Court because the legal process involve in it entails payment of heavy legal fees to the lawyers authorised by the law to appear before them which common man simply cannot afford to pay. In the same manner, many high profile corruption cases fail in the superior courts because of the poor performance of incompetent prosecution police inspectors who cannot hold candle professionally to the highly paid competent lawyers engaged by the accused to defend them in the superior courts. Experience of hindsight reveals that sometimes it is the government itself which instructs the prosecution not to pursue vigorously corruption cases because it had hit it off politically with the accused.
There is no denying the fact that it is not only our former prime ministers, presidents and ministers that have been booked under corruption charges. Former rulers of many European , Middle East and central Asian countries have also been arrested in their countries on more or less similar charges but neither flower petals are thrown on their cars nor any protocol is given to them when they appear before courts for facing the corruption charges.
The government would have to evolve such a mechanism under which justice is made available in the superior courts to the poor litigants also. Likewise, the government must engage qualified lawyers with good reputation from the open market to assist the prosecution branch of the police in high profile cases against the politically influential corrupt former leaders.
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