Who should be made to sit in the corner?
There is a practice of making irresponsible students sit in a corner if they violate the class rules or fail to complete their homework. The humiliation this student suffers in front of everyone is simply unfathomable. Sometimes judges follow this to the core. They make some witnesses plundering lies sit in the corner of the court till the workday ends. But these are really given to those small robbers, thieves etc. But in Modi’s India, this punishment has been given to the officer heading one of the most premier institutions of India, the CBI.
The court had ordered that CBI Joint Director Arun Kumar Sharma who was investigating the case of Bihar Shelter home sexual harassment case should not be transferred. But CBI former Chief Nageswara Rao had violated this. Hence the court not only penalized Rao to the tune of Rs one lakh, but also made him sit in the corner like a petty criminal. Having lost its entire credibility, the CBI was subjected to another humiliating phase with this. This is a big warning to officers in various posts who are trying to circumvent the constitution paying heed to those who are encouraging them to violate.
Who actually sat in the corner over that order? Was it Nageswara Rao or the CBI? Who put CBI in this spot? Is it Narendra Modi? In some ways, it was not Nageswara Rao who was penalized and punished. It was actually a rap on PM Modi. Rao may have been the face of it, but the humiliation was caused to Modi. The country had seen with trepidation the way Modi had made CBI dance to his tunes. Initially he used the IT officers and then began to operate through CBI officers who were used like BJP workers or slaves of the ruling party. But when CBI began to raise its hood against the limited interest of the PM, they set CBI to fight against its own officers. Worried that the then CBI chief Alok Verma would be investigating the Rafale deal, the government brought one of its blue eyed persons to head the institution, despite the opposition even with the CBI. Asthana was facing corruption charges when he was nominated for the post of CBI chief. How can he investigate corruption charges against anyone else? When Alok Verma filed a case against him, it was dubbed as ‘clashes within the CBI’ by the government. Under this pretext, PM Modi sent two officers on leave and brought Nageswara Rao into that chair. Rao also had corruption charges against him.
Eventually Supreme Court reappointed Alok Verma. The government had one chance to rectify its mistakes and uphold the office of CBI. But it took a very narrow bylane without any dignity to spare and transferred Verma again. Verma saved his personal integrity by resigning from the post. Why is the government that claims that the Rafale deal is a clean one, get so petrified of Verma? Looks like PM himself has declared that he is guilty by sending Verma home with the sword of Rafale hanging on his neck. CBI officers began to work like they had extra constitutional powers. They transferred everyone who didn’t heed to their demands and requirements across cases.
In some ways it seemed like they were acting on the instructions of PMO. Because the transfer of CBI joint director A K Sharma who was investigating the Bihar case, couldn’t have been Rao’s independent decision. Without political pressure this couldn’t have been done. Now Rao has to bear the cross for the mistakes made by politicians. He stood guilty before the court and the country saw Modi in his place while he was at it. But then since people are walking without an ounce of shame, to expect that a punishment would bring some change is a tough proposition.
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Rishabh Pant's troubles continue as Punjab Kings push LSG towards exit door
Dharamsala, May 4 (PTI): Rishabh Pant lost the grip on his bat and the match simultaneously as Punjab Kings rode on heroics from the two 'Singhs' -- Prabhsimran and Arshdeep -- to literally push Lucknow Super Giants to the brink of elimination with a 37-run win in an IPL match here on Sunday.
It was Prabhsimran's 48-ball 91 that formed the cornerstone of Punjab Kings' unassailable 236 for 5 and any hopes of a remarkable chase was nipped in the bud by Arshdeep's (3/16 in 4 overs) now familiar Powerplay spell which summarily destroyed the opposition top-order.
This time, he got the three top run getters -- Mitchell Marsh (0), Aiden Markram (13) and the ever-dangerous Nicholas Pooran (6) -- to swing the match decisively in Punjab's favour. Ayush Badoni's (74 off 40 balls) effort was a good one albeit it came for a losing cause.
LSG were finally restricted to 199 for 7 in 20 overs and even if they win their last three games and get to 16 points from 14 games, their net run-rate can make things difficult for them.
Punjab Kings are now placed second with 15 points from 11 games and one more win could possibly clinch a place in top four for them.
But what is becoming an eyesore is LSG's Rs 27 crore worth skipper Pant's inexplicable approach which has fetched him a dismal 128 runs in 11 innings at a sub-100 strike-rate (99.22).
On the day, he scored 18 off 17 balls and that he is completely out of sync was evident in the manner he tried to throw the proverbial kitchen sink at an Azmatullah Omarzai delivery. There was no control in his shot as the bat took off on parabolic curve towards square leg and the ball went towards deep point.
Pant's misery was a testimony of LSG's wretched campaign that was lost at the auction table when the owner decided to go with a sub-standard bowling attack based on a half-fit talented pacer Mayank Yadav.
Mayank has already lost at least 10-15 yards of pace post rehabilitation under the watch of Nitin Patel at the National Cricket Academy.
On Sunday, he went for 60 runs off four overs with half a dozen of sixes struck off his bowling.
The pint-sized Prabhsimran packed a mean punch in his strokes as he blasted his way to a 48-ball 91 with the help of six fours and seven sixes.
The Punjab keeper-batter should have got his second IPL hundred but an ambitious switch hit off Digvesh Rathi saw him head back to the pavilion, nine runs short of what would have been a deserving milestone.
Towards the end, Shashank Singh scored 33 off 15 balls to take PBKS to what looked like an unassailable total. There were 16 sixes hit by Pujab Kings with 13 coming off pacers.
Prabhsimran was initially a passive partner as it was Australian Jos Inglis who launched the first attack with a hat-trick of sixes off Mayank Yadav, whose speed has decreased by at least 15 kmph post his intense rehab under Nitin Patel at the BCCI's erstwhile National Cricket Academy to recover from back injury.
However, once Inglis was dismissed, Prabhsimran, along with skipper Shreyas Iyer (45 off 25 balls), took control of the game. They were only helped by some atrocious fielding from Avesh Khan, who would probably go down as the worst fielder in the 18-year history of IPL.
Adding insult to injury, Prabhsimran took the tall MP fast bowler to the cleaners as he was pulled over mid-wicket for back-to-back maximums. Khan went for 57 in four overs and if around 15 runs due to his misfielding is added, he caused the maximum damage for his team.
The duo of Prabhsimran and Iyer added 78 runs in 7.5 overs before Rathi, LSG's best bowler on view, became the first spinner in the current season to account for Punjab Kings skipper's wicket.
But Prabhsimran continued like a man possessed and LSG bowlers were guilty of feeding to his strengths throughout the innings.
