After noting illegalities in the cases, Justice N Anand Venkatesh felt that it was a matter of principle to prevent the grossest abuse of the judicial process.
“If the rule of law is to mean anything, it must mean that politicians and the common man of this State will be equal before the Courts and that the butcher, the baker and the candlelight maker will be treated just the same as a Revenue, Housing or Finance Minister of this State.”
On the conduct of the DVAC – the body responsible for probing corruption cases of legislators – in these cases, it said,
“It cannot but be observed that the eagerness of the DVAC to resort to further investigation to find material to support the discharge petitions of the accused raises a serious doubt in the mind of this Court as to whether the entire investigation had been compromised and derailed with the intent of getting the accused off the hook…In this case, the DVAC contested tooth and nail till there was a change of power in the State in 2021. The accused were aware that till such time, they could not use the police to ferret defense material in their favor.”
Source: Barandbench
