Holding two top scientists guilty of contempt of court the Madras HC awarded three weeks simple imprisonment to them and levied a fine for their willful failure to implement the court orders in the matter of providing employment to the petitioner. The court directed the condemners to surrender for undergoing the punishment within a week failing which the registry is directed to issue warrant.
The learned Judge in the course of the judgment observed:” Knock with faith the doors of heaven will open to you, Christ said. The petitioner has been relentlessly knocking the doors of the Government in vain and continued to be in hell.”
The petitioner has undergone three rounds of litigation in the court and in all the three rounds he won the case. In this context the learned judge observed : “ We find that they have willfully disobeyed the court orders. We are aware they are occupying very high positions but ensconced in a pedestal, their vision becomes blurred when it comes to the travails of an ordinary employee.“
Such a situation which prevails now goes unchecked and there is no proper machinery to monitor the implementation of the court order in letter and spirit, where will a common citizen go who has his own limitations to act except file a contempt petition and live with the premonition whether at all he will survive to see the light in the tunnel.
R.K.Viswanathan