In 2005 some journalists organised a sting operation in which they paid cash to Members of Parliament to ask questions as specified by the journalists. This ' cash for queries ' scandal resulted in eleven members being disqualified by the Speaker, a punishment which was supported by the Supreme Court. Today's newspaper carries a report that the present govt. has issued orders to the police to prosecute those journalists on charges of ' abetment of corruption '. The politicians of India have become so used to plunder, rape and murder with complete impunity that they find it difficult to accept that punishment might occasionally catch up with them. They must be pining for the good old days of Congress rule when they could make easy money doling out telephone and gas connections or cement permits to suitably grateful recipients. It also shows that politicians of India are disgusting slimebags. I am pleased that this has happened because these same journalists did not support Tehelka which was bankrupted by a string of false charges using taxpayers money. Not one politician went to jail and the Shameless Rakhel is still claiming that the Tehelka tapes were doctored even though three laboratories have said that they are genuine. Meanwhile Shibu Soren, a convicted murderer, is living in great comfort in a hospital cottage in Ranchi instead of in a jail. No sharam no izzat.