00:00 Namaskar.
00:01 Welcome to another episode of editorial.
00:04 Today I am going to tell you a story.
00:09 A story that will make you wonder whether we are living in a democracy.
00:17 A story that will make you wonder whether we should live in a democracy or is monarchy
00:22 better.
00:23 Monarchy, you bend down to one king.
00:28 How many people are we bending down in a democracy?
00:32 So today's story will make you wonder whether monarchy is better than democracy.
00:37 Let's get right into the show and let's just talk about this story.
00:44 So there was this judge called Justice Gurung Kant.
00:49 He was the judge of Delhi High Court.
00:55 Justice Gurung Kant lost his dog and he wrote a letter to the Joint Commissioner of Police
01:04 Delhi.
01:05 Now I will tell you as far as ranking is concerned, who Joint Commissioner of Police is.
01:14 You see when an IPS officer joins in, he joins in as a, obviously a probation officer, then
01:20 an ASP, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Superintendent of Police, Senior Superintendent
01:24 of Police and then he becomes a IG, Inspector General of Police, then he becomes a Special
01:31 IG after that, after that he becomes an Additional Director General of Police and then a Director
01:36 of General Police.
01:38 So a Special IG and sometimes ADG, this is when he becomes, he or she becomes a Joint
01:46 Commissioner of Police.
01:48 So in police hierarchy, it's almost the top job.
01:53 So our Justice lost his dog and he wrote this letter to the Joint Commissioner of Police.
01:59 I will read this letter out to you.
02:02 So the letter he writes is as follows.
02:05 He writes to the Joint Commissioner of Police, security, Delhi Police and he says, I am writing
02:12 this letter with a lot of pain and anguish. Due to the lack of devotion and incompetence
02:20 on the part of the officers providing security in my official bungalow, I have lost my pet
02:27 dog. In spite of repeatedly telling them to keep the door locked, the security officials
02:34 deputed at my residence have failed to comply with my directions and carry out their professional
02:41 duty.
02:43 Such dereliction of duty and incompetence needs immediate attention, as the same can
02:49 cause grave danger to my life and liberty.
02:55 Such callous in carrying out their duties by the said security personnel may cause any
03:03 untoward incident at my residence and I fear my security.
03:09 Not manning the gate and lack of devotion in keeping a check on the moment and ingress
03:15 and egress from the gate of my residence is intolerable.
03:21 I will request you to immediately suspend the officers who are unbecoming of a government
03:27 servant and carrying out a thorough investigation regarding the aforementioned issue which could
03:34 have been a grave threat to my life and my family's life.
03:39 An action taken report in this regard shall be submitted within three working days from
03:46 today.
03:47 He lost his dog and he is angry about it.
03:52 He is pained about it.
03:54 Fair, fair, dog is man's best friend and one does get pain when one loses one's pet.
04:04 You know why am I talking about this today?
04:06 I am talking about this today is because a court is capable to take so-moto cognizance
04:14 to things which are happening around it.
04:16 A judge has that right.
04:21 Hundreds of people died in Manipur.
04:25 Which court, which judge took cognizance?
04:30 Did any judge write to the chief minister of Manipur and said that I want report in
04:34 three days or suspend the officers who have been inactive?
04:38 Did any judge write that?
04:42 I will give you some facts and figures and then I will get further.
04:47 You see in 2016, according to NCRB, in 2016, there was a total of 88,008 kidnappings and
04:54 abductions.
04:55 88,008 people were kidnapped and abducted.
05:01 In 2017, 95,893 people were kidnapped and abducted.
05:06 In 2018, 1,05,734 people were kidnapped and abducted.
05:13 In 2019, 1,05,037 people were kidnapped and abducted.
05:19 In 2020, 84,805 people were kidnapped and abducted.
05:23 In 2021, 1,07,007 people were kidnapped and abducted.
05:33 A lot of, it happened in Delhi too.
05:36 A lot of these kidnap, kidnapping and abduction.
05:39 How many times this judge has Suvamoto written to the Joint Commission of Police saying that
05:44 this kidnap, this kidnap has happened, this abduction has happened.
05:48 It's a child.
05:49 It's a woman.
05:50 Report in three days.
05:53 Suspend the officers.
05:55 How many times he has written?
06:00 The question that I ask tonight is in the garb of democracy, we elect and we pay to
06:11 create a judiciary, to create a legislature, to create an executive.
06:20 And if you look at it, all these three, all these three, they later on rule over us.
06:28 They become our monarch.
06:31 This is the foundation of democracy.
06:33 This foundation changes into multiple monarchy.
06:37 I am saying multiple monarchy is because in a monarchy, in a monarch driven state or a
06:42 dictated driven state, you have to just fall in the feet of one man or one woman, fall
06:48 at her feet or his feet and that's it.
06:51 But in a state like this, right from a local municipal corporator of yours to a local session
06:57 court judge of yours to a local police inspector in your police station, from him to the topmost
07:04 person, you have to fall at every person's feet.
07:09 This judge thinks that he is entitled.
07:13 His dog got lost, so his family and his own life is in danger.
07:18 If we would have prayed to him saying that my lord, my dog got lost, so I need security
07:23 outside my house because my life is in danger, he would have thrown our petition out of the
07:27 window saying that what crap are you talking about?
07:31 Wouldn't he?
07:32 But when it comes to him, he has the power and in our taxpayers' money, those people
07:40 have to be suspended and possibly what?
07:42 He has to be given an answer as to why his dog got missing.
07:46 Possibly Delhi police will put the entire police force behind that dog and somewhere
07:49 down the line, a child who is lost, a child who is kidnapped, they will not have enough
07:55 people to send to that, to rescue that child.
08:01 And all this happening with our tax money and all this happening with our vote.
08:09 See this is not the first case.
08:11 There was six days back, there was another case that a judge, he was not served well,
08:17 he was not happy with the service in the train, so he rode to the regional head, railways.
08:22 Why is he not happy?
08:23 Why is service not provided?
08:27 Justice Chandrachud gave a very good reply to that.
08:29 Justice Chandrachud said that protocol facilities which are made available to judges should
08:35 not be utilized to assert a claim to privilege which sets them apart from society or as a
08:41 manifestation of power or authority.
08:45 A wise exercise of judicial authority both on and off the bench is what sustains the
08:52 credibility and the legitimacy of the judiciary and the confidence which the society has in
08:57 its judges.
08:58 I mean, the Chief Justice spoke very well, which he normally does.
09:04 He is a very well articulated person.
09:06 But how much of this actually happens?
09:10 How much of this is actually executed on ground?
09:13 What happens to such judges who says, "Mera kutta kum gaya hai".
09:18 I remember one politician in Uttar Pradesh had sent police searching for his buffalos.
09:23 I remember that and now he is a judge and that's my point.
09:29 These are the pillars of democracy and this is how they are utilizing democracy.
09:35 This is how they are utilizing democracy.
09:40 The reason I want to tell this story is not to put down this judge or that's not my intention
09:44 or to put down the judiciary.
09:45 That's definitely not my intention.
09:46 The reason I am telling you this story is because till such time that you and I, till
09:51 such time that you and I do not understand our rights, our powers, the fact that we are
09:58 the taxpayers, these are supposed to be people serving us, protecting us, not ruling us.
10:04 Till such time that we don't understand it, this is going to only increase in our country.
10:09 The way an IAS officer, an administrative officer treats a person who comes to visit
10:14 him is like he is treating a servant.
10:17 Most often than not, he doesn't even have the courtesy to make a person sit in front
10:20 of him.
10:21 I have seen police officers when they walk into a lift, they don't allow others to get
10:25 into that lift.
10:26 They go.
10:27 There are, I have seen places where there are walkways, where there are staircases,
10:33 where only police officers can walk, others cannot.
10:36 When is this going to end?
10:39 And you know what, all these people are paid by us.
10:43 All these people are paid by us.
10:45 You see, they are not going to get a shot.
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11:56 I took a very interesting interview of a senior journalist from Kerala called M. Shri
12:01 Kumar.
12:02 Shri Kumar has been on the field for last three decades.
12:06 He has been covering Kerala and he understands Kerala, the social fabric of Kerala better
12:13 than most of the people I know.
12:15 I spoke to him.
12:16 I wanted to find out from him as to what happened in Kasargod on Tuesday when those Muslim League
12:23 youth, youth Muslim League members, they were chanting anti-Hindu slogan and they were,
12:28 they were threatening Hindus.
12:29 Why did that happen?
12:31 I wanted to know what is Love Jihad?
12:33 Is Love Jihad actually happening in Kerala?
12:36 I wanted to know whether is the secular fabric of Kerala getting destroyed?
12:43 And I have got some fabulous answer from him, fabulous answer from him, candid, real and
12:48 fabulous answers from him.
12:50 I would request you please watch that episode.
12:54 It is aired today.
12:55 It is aired at 8 o'clock I guess today, so earlier to this program.
12:59 So do watch that interview.
13:02 Till I see you next time, that is tomorrow at 10 o'clock.
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