Sir — The Supreme Court’s deep distress and angst is most obvious in its comparison of the ‘independent’ Central Bureau of Investigation to that of a ‘caged parrot’, singing the tune of its many masters.
Seldom has an epithet been so humiliating — for the CBI is not just a parrot ‘singing taught lines’, it is also a ‘caged’ parrot, unable to fly by itself. In spite of its pain and its plain-speak, the court has been rather kind. It has given the Government another date, on which the regime is to file an affidavit on whether a law would be brought in quickly to insulate the CBI from outside influences. But, will such generosity work in a system that is so used to corruptionIJ