A few months back Mr Bhushan, a lawyer testified to the Supreme Court that 8 of the previous 16 Chief Justices of the court were corrupt. He also claimed that 2 Chief Justices had personally told him that the justices before and after them were corrupt, that is 4 justices. He has been charged with contempt of court. Now a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, JS Verma has said in an interview that he wanted to file a police complaint or FIR against his successor Justice MM Punchhi but was refused by the then Prime Minister, IK Gujral. ( TOI, June 28). Justice Verma also said that he had withdrawn his recommendation for a high court judge to be promoted to Chief Justice of the High Court when the Prime Minister rang him and said that there were disturbing reports about his integrity. These are extremely serious charges. Criminal politicians interfering with investigation of corruption and allowing allegedly corrupt individuals to be promoted. Who knows how many criminal politicians and thieving, parasitic civil servants have escaped punishment when the judge himself was a crook. Rathore was promoted to the post of Director General of Police in Haryana even though he was guilty of having molested a teenage girl and then using the police force under him to hound the family so ruthlessly that the girl committed suicide. Meanwhile the previous Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, KG Balakrishnan has been appointed chairman of the National Human Rights Commission even though there are serious allegations of land grabbing by his immediate family. He refuses to resign. Creatures of the cesspool are strutting about. How to cleanse?