If you believe those Supreme Court judges who say that the CBI is a caged parrot, then it might be fair to also assume that the Modi regime does not have much love lost for the Bar Council of India (BCI).
“The demand in form is nothing but extortion and also amounts to professional misconduct,” she said…
But scariest / saddest thing in all this should perhaps be that not a single newspaper or website (other than LI), has so far picked up the story, despite a massive press release about the jail terms (also uploaded on the CBI’s website) and the Press Trust of India having carried the story some time last evening.
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Comments
1. Media wants to protect the powerful. Even Bar & Bench has censored it (the ultimate suck-up website).
2. Media does not see legal education as important (unlike medical colleges) and even we as a nation don't care (look at GLC, DU: law degrees without attendance!)
Don't think anyone else has though.
I agree with your analysis.
I think one large part is also that editors are afraid that if they write about the BCI, they might get sued by the lawyers there.
And yes, medical colleges are a far bigger audience than law schools for newspapers.
Nevertheless, they all report about law schools, judicial reform, pendency, protesting and striking lawyers, and so many more things, yet they usually seem to stop shy just before the BCI...