New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday said that the Central Vigilance Commission was expected to objectively and independently examine the complaints by whistle-blowers against officials and not just act as a post office to forward the complaints to the chief vigilance officer of the department concerned.
"Once they have procedure, they have to follow it" in dealing with the complaints, said a bench of Justice T.S.Thakur, Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman and Justice Prafulla C. Pant pointing out that that CVC can't pass "telegraphic orders".
Saying that the orders passed by the CVC on the complaints by the whistle-blowers has to be a speaking order, the court asked: "What measures you adopt in objectively assessing the complaints."
It further observed that the working of the CVC should be more "effective and transparent".
The court's observations came in the course of the hearing of a PIL by NGO Parivartan seeking protection of the identity of the whistle-blowers including from harassment and discrimination at the hands of those whose acts of misdemeanour they seeks to expose.
"They should come forward if they have problem in manpower and financial resources", the court said as counsel Prashant Bhushan told the court that CVC had just 300 staffers right from the top man to the man at the bottom and suffered both in terms of manpower and financial resources.
Bhushan told the court that given the huge magnitude of the problem, they don't have resources which was effecting their work.
"The Whistle Blowers Protection Act, 2011 has created an agency which will suffer from twin problem of manpower shortage and financial crunch," he said.
"And justice becomes a casualty," remarked the court as Bhushan said: "It is like courts which don't have adequate funds resulting lack of judges and judicial infrastructure."
"You can kill a body by starving it of funds," he added.
Taking note of the submissions by Bhushan and apparent deficiencies in the working of the act, the court asked him to submit his suggestion to improve its enforcement, as well as to find out if there were similar laws in other countries and their working.
Bhushan will also give suggestions on make effective the supervision of the Central Bureau of Investigation by the CVC. The court gave Bhushan four weeks file his suggestions and three weeks to the central government to respond to them.
Winter In UP Due to the continuous falling temperature in the state, the number of heart disease
Will Pakistan give a competition to Rafale and S-400 with JF-17? Know who is more effective
Pakistan PM Imran Khan is in the final stages of procuring 50 JF-17 Block III fighter aircraft af
Jammu Police post attackers gunned down: Home Minister
New Delhi, March 20 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir Police and the CRPF gunned down the two terrorists
Dainik Bhaskar did a thorough investigation after reaching the place where Punjabi singer Sidhu M
Pranab writes to Singapore's president
New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee wrote to the Singapore president on Tuesd
Gujarat Titans defeated defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 39 runs and strengthen
Tanzanian internet sensation Kili Paul has been attacked by unknown assailants with a knife and a
The biggest match of the T20 World Cup will be played between India and Pakistan on 24 October. H
V.K. Singh says tweets directed at media, denies offer to resign
New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) Facing flak over his tweets af
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan and the Shahbaz Sharif government are at loggerheads over the ap
