If due process is wrong, how can you ‘convict’ anyone?

It was hilarious to see the bureaucrats jumping thorough hoops today to save their own skins and of their political masters.  And Mr. Sibal the new Telecom Minister must be feeling like he has all of India’s ants-in-his-pants.

It is indeed a serious miscarriage of justice to call a part of accusations as correct, while implying that the due process through which the allegations have been raised has been faulty.

Today the reports say that there is a move to penalise 62 licensees  in the alleged spectrum scandal.  How can they, the Government of India do that?  Dr. Subramanian Swamy, are you listening?

The facts here are:

1. The CAG has alleged/reported that the due process of allotting or auctioning the 2G Wireless Spectrum has been faulty and as many as 80 or so of 120 odd licensees were allegedly bogus.
2. Now there is a move to cancel the licenses of 60 or so of them.
3. The question is if the process itself is in violation of law (as alleged by the CAG), then how can the other 50 odd licences granted be held as valid?
4. Either the whole thing is a scam or the whole process was as per the law.  Once can’t contend that even though the due process was faulty (as alleged), some parts are good.
5. It is like saying that when a student copies during an exam or a scholar plagiarises, a part of his answers or thesis is good, while the rest is bad.

Point (5) has been raised for Mr. Sibal, pointedly (no pun intended) since he also holds the HRD portfolio of which education is a major part of.

Unfortunately, there are only a handful of people who can think, raise, talk and act on this point.  One is me.  Of the handful, the PM is one, as is the Finance Minister, the new Telecom Minister himself and the woman I admire most (apart from my mother) Mrs. Gandhi and my Mr. Hope.  I’ve thought, raised the point and have acted by blogging about it. 

Would they act?

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