Two reporters wrote an article alleging that the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Mr Sabharwal, miused his authority as a judge by ordering closure of hundreds of high street shops so as to direct shoppers to newly built malls to the profit of both his sons. The law says that a judge may not be prosecuted for any judgement he delivers from the bench however pernicious or immoral it may be. Citing this law the government refuses even to investigate the truth of the allegations in case they turn out to be true and the judge is shamed. Meanwhile a judge of the Delhi High Court jailed the two journalists on a farcical charge of contempt of court and this judge also cannot be challenged for flagrant suppression of the right to free speech. A judge in UP has confessed to embezzling millions of rupees from the PF ( ? Provident Fund ) and has named 23 other judges involved in the scam. However the Supreme Court will only allow the police to send questionaires to the named judges and not allow direct questioning to keep the affair out of media glare so as to guard the reputation of the judiciary. Almost the same number of elite policemen died off the coast of Orissa when the boat they were in was fired at by Naxal, Maoist terrorists. More than 160 districts of the total of 600 in India are infested by Naxals and they are spreading. When people see that corruption in the rich and the powerful goes unpunished they resort to the gun. The hand that wrote on the wall in ancient Babylon may be about to make a return.