Hail jail and bail

Jail and bail are the words of the year 2011. The next in the pecking order might be ‘anti-corruption’ that was in the highest decibel thanks to Ramlila.

It is difficult to find a politician, who was not somniloquous about these words, while they had turned them insomniac. People wanted to see them in the jail and the corrupt chanted the word bail.

Both were the pet words for the top lawyers, for they enjoyed a windfall gain from them. But, the Supreme Court was the show stealer putting the impossible behind bars.

Twice the Supreme Court struck. After managing to get bail from a lower court Ramalinga Raju could not live happily for ever after. He barely spent two days with his family before the apex court cancelled the bail. The cancellation did not come before the Supreme Court asking the Andhra Pradesh High Court to take up the slack before releasing the kite. Its ultimatum to the accused in Satyam case to surrender before trail court came as tempest to wipe out cynicism prevailed. People were complaining the powerful would getaway with their fraud. Raju’s case was the first case to bring smile on their faces after proving them wrong.

The Supreme Court was more scathing on the Mumbai High Court for granting bail to the master tax evader Hasan Ali. Terming the High Court’s judgment erroneous, the Supreme Court bench observed it was "deeply disturbed" over the way the trail court judge conducted the proceedings. Till then dead in the eyes of a common man, the judiciary suddenly turned alive to roll out like juggernaut.

They way the Supreme Court sent A Raja, Kanimzhi, and Suresh Kalmadi to jail was a leson for the lower courts and it made the judges double cautious. As a result, the Kattas, Yeddys, Reddys started falling in line. Remember how Katta Subramnaya Naidu, who was dodging the Lokayukta special court, made a return trip from a foreign country to India to appear before the judge, who threatened to send an arrest warrant, and joined his son en route to Parapapna Agrahara Jail. No bail for him despite spending crores on the lawyers.

Yeddyurappa is also spending crores on his lawyers. He knows, like others knew, that a jail term before getting bail is the only punishment that an accused get at the given situation as the trail goes on for years and the courts take ages to decide on a case. The under trails out on bail can rule the roost, while their court appearance will be as routine as their attendance in their daily work. The media forgets about their cases once they get bail and they enjoy freedom. The glowing examples are Jayalalithaa and Lalu Prasad Yadav. Nobody knows what happened to their cases. We heard the trail is on.

Y Samapangi, Haratalu Halappa, and Renukacharya are now free birds enjoying life. Can you remember these politicians once made headlines in Karnataka when they were booked under criminal charges? Their lawyers got bail for them and they slipped out of the media glare. Who knows whom Sampangi is extorting, whom Halappa is trying to rape, or whom Renukacharya is romancing with?


This is the reason why the Yeddys and Reddys are betting on the lawyers and investing hugely on them. But, the courts are giving run for their money.

The ever-elected representative of Lingayat masses, a man used to think the chief minister chair his own property, is making trips to the court. The Lokayukta court is to decide on B S Yeddyurapap’s bail plea.

The ever-elected representative of Bellary’s toiling masses, a man ignoring even court summonses, is suddenly behind bars. The CBI court in Hyderabad remanded G Janardana Reddy to CBI custody after rejecting his bail application.

The trend is so pertinent that even film stars are facing the heat. See how challenging star Darshan’s heroism was challenged? He is now learning dishum dishum can earn applause only on screen and beating wife in real life will bring a jail term. He is the son of a great actor, who was loved by the audience as a villain. Tugudeepa Srinivas led an austere life and his wife donated her kidney to him. His son is a hero and he could not win his wife’s heart.

The court yet again played a leveler and proved people can still believe in judiciary.


Then, how could Kumaraswamy get bail? He can achieve anything because he is the son of Deve Gowda. And Deve Gowda is Deve Gowda, the real Rajni Kanth.