RAM PRASAD JAISWAL Vs. CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The Apex Court baffled by the mounting numbers of economic offences and financial scams in a matter of grant of bail in the case of Nimmagadda Prasad vs Central Bureau of Investigation, 2013 7 SCC 466 Paragraph 23 observed as under:-

(2.) The Constitutional mandate under Act 21 spells out a fundamental right that has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to include medical care of every person, followed by the Directive Principles of the State Policy that are engrafted in Act 39, 42 and 47 where the State is obliged to maintain health standards and improve public health. What happens if the standard bearers of public governance indulge in acts contrary to such mandate while discharging their public duties?

(3.) The country is facing a huge drop in matters of moral decline and financial bankruptcy, and the present case adds another dark leaf to the annals of such critical moments. To save the society, its rulers and the ruled, from any further ignominy is an urgent need and a constitutional obligation. The story unfolded in the present case reveals the squandering and alleged defalcation of several hundred Crores of public exchequer through dubious transactions with a network spread far and wide leading to several criminal acts, but with no less lapses that have been contributed by the judicial system, the glaring example whereof is the present proceeding.