The
President advised the Lokayuktas to remember that their duty is not just to
indict public functionaries when they are guilty but also to protect them when
nothing is found wrong with their conduct and to correct wrong perceptions
about them with equal force and earnestness. It must be ensured that in the
name of checking corruption, vilification campaigns are not carried out to
defame or destroy reputations, he said. The President stated that false
allegations aimed at impugning reputations are bad.
The
President also said that Institutions are the visible pillars of our
Constitution, and if they crack then the idealism of our Constitution cannot
hold. Our institutions may have suffered from the weariness of time. The answer
is not to destroy what has been built, but to re-engineer them so that they
become stronger than before. Institutions are the ultimate guardians of our
liberty. All these must strengthen existing institutions of accountability not
displace them or undermine them. We must also distinguish bonafide errors of
judgment from graft and corruption, civil wrong from criminal intent and the
need to have swift and effective sanctions against corruption from the
imperative of protecting the innocent, he added.
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