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Open letter to the Director of public prosecutions

17 juillet 2015, 11:53

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“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, ….”

 

Dear Ajit,

I decided for an open letter because I think I owe it to my family, my relations, the professions and the country as a whole. I thank l’express for giving me this opportunity and its valuable space. I was not the missive of ICAC or of any other interested party when I offered my helping hand to you. It is simply not right that you reached such a conclusion.

 

A couple of well meaning and well intentioned friends, common to you and me, living above the fray, concerned only with the proper functioning of our time honoured democratic institutions as well as your personal plight in an imminent clash between two vital and valuable ones approached me to sound you, through a relation of yours. This is what I did. The objective was to ensure that you save yourself from any possible avoidable self-harm. We dreaded things going awry.

 

Only you had the facts. None of us had them or have them. Only you would have known whether those facts in your possession justified an ICAC probe. If they did, there was a way of avoiding aggressive confrontation. That was what was conveyed  to you. My conversation with you included the personal as well as the institutional issues. Above all, I was not acting or purporting to act for ICAC or any other than the friends mentioned above. I never said that, either to you or to your relation.

 

There must be many who take the view like I do that democratic institutions like ICAC and DPP’s Office should spare themselves a course of head-on collision. When elephants fight, the first fatal casualty is the grass before others. People with kind intentions are often misunderstood. They live life at other levels. For the record, my dear friend, I came to you NOT at the instance of ICAC or any other interested party. Some well intentioned common friends deeply concerned that you do not become your own victim offered their helping hand, which you have misapprehended. I considered my job done when you told me you are prepared to go for a confrontation than a mediation. There must be many of us who are unhappy about the events that are unfolding, which could have been avoided.

 

ICAC and your Office could have together gone to Court for a declaration or the drawing of a demarcation line between the powers of ICAC and those of the DPP under our written Constitution. The legal community has always wrestled with this challenging issue, ever since the passing of the Prevention of Corruption Act and its operations since 2002. Both would have emerged honorably.

 

Sincerely Yours,

Bushan

(Son of a Late Priest)

 

“If you can bear to hear the truth you have spoken twisted …. to make a trap …Then I shall call you a man my son!.” -  Kipling