In a democracy judiciary, legislature and executive are
independent of each other. Judiciary has the responsibility to ensure
constitutional provisions are not violated.
Criticism of judiciary about coal scam is justified as the
investigation was asked for by it. But judiciary wanting an affidavit by July
10 on making agency autonomous (reported in times of India of may 9, 2013)
amounts to taking over the function of legislature.
Incase CBI has to be autonomous, who will appoint the
functionaries? Should the functionaries be form the IPS, which is part of the
executive? Or, as in case of election commission (which is autonomous) the
president of India appoint them. IPS and state police force should have nothing
to do with CBI. Is this arrangement possible? In my view judiciary should give
comprehensive guidelines for formation of CBI as an autonomous body without
infringing upon the independence of legislature and executive.
