Is it time to decommission Judicial Commissions

The Justice Phukans investigation report raised a lot of hue and cry before it all died down. I am sure that Justice Phukan did not change the conclusion of the report for a trifle such as free holiday. It must have been some thing like “OK I head this commission and I need to make a trip to many places why not mix work with holiday and take my family along in a nice plane, After all I have the power to do so now”, nothing more serious than that. The Tehelka Investigation commission has been jinxed right from the start, when Justice Venkatswami was forced to resign over the scandal raised on his appointement as the chairman of the Authority on Advance Rulings of Excise and Customs on the advice of the then chief justice of India. He resigned both the posts. Now Phukans report has been rejected by the government which is now going to appoint a new CBI investigation. The government may have taken the decisions in good faith albeit they were not good judgement, but their effects on judicial commissions have been profound.

Till now there is no proof that Defense procurement is bested by corruption, after all that is how the whole saga had begun, but surely some politicians (I say “All”) were not above taking money. But that is the job of the police and courts. Instead we now have the entire system of Judicial Investigative commission falling apart.

Any one wants a commission to investigate that?