On September 10, 2008, Times Now, a television news channel, was reporting on a provident fund scam at the Ghaziabad District Court. During the report the channel mentioned Justice PK Samantha of the Kolkata High Court but unintentionally showed the picture of Justice PB Sawant, retired judge of the Supreme Court, for about 15 seconds. Once the mistake was realised the channel ran a public apology to the judge for 5 days. Not satisfied Justice Sawant sued the channel for defamation and the Pune High Court has awarded a mind boggling Rs 1 billion in damages. The aggrieved channel appealed to the Supreme Court for remedy but was told that it has to deposit Rs 200 million in cash and Rs 800 million in bank guarantees before the court will hear the appeal. In the past, Delhi High Court sentenced 2 journalists to jail for contempt of court because they had the audacity to write an article exposing how the sons of the then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court were benefiting from the sealing of high street shops in Delhi. The sons worked for a company building shopping malls which made huge profits from the orders of the Chief Justice. The same Delhi High Court has just given Manu Sharma, murderer of Jessica Lall, a 5 day leave to attend his brother's wedding making mockery of his life sentence. All cases of grabbing pubic land against Justice Dinakaran were dropped when he resigned. After pronouncing judgments from on high for years judges in India are clearly suffering from ' God complex ' so that any perceived insult, no matter how trivial, is deemed more serious than murder. They should beware. The remedy could be exceedingly bitter.