Noted jurist Fali S Nariman on Sunday congratulated the judges of Punjab and Haryana High Court who pulled up the Centre and the Manohar Lal Khattar government for their failure to prevent the loss of lives and property in the violence after a CBI court convicted Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim of rape.
“Heartiest congratulations to the brave judges of the Full Bench of the High Court, who have expressed (in open Court) their deep sense of anguish at the avoidable carnage that took place last Friday," Nariman said in a statement.
"It needed to be said: that the Prime Minister is not the head of the Political Party in power at the Centre (God forbid!). He should be, and function only as the Prime Minister of India. Likewise, the Chief Minister is not the head of the political party in power in the State; he should be, and he should always function as the Chief Minister of the State," he went on.
"Persons who hold such High Offices, and yet do not pay heed to the responsibility that attaches to them, fail us – which does not augur well for what we citizens have been pleased (and proud) to call ‘Our Democracy’, " Nariman stated.
Slamming the Haryana government for extending political patronage to Dera Sacha Sauda and the Chief Minister for “protecting” it, the High Court had on Saturday said it was misled by the state functionaries ahead of Friday’s verdict in the rape case against the dera chief.
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