Netas, bureaucrats and other sundry rulers are notoriously hard to bring to book; their power, money, position and connections protect them. But they continue to feel insecure. The fear of the fall from high is so strong that, by hook or by crook, they must make the fortress stronger.

The Chief Minister could have signalled his honest intention to clean up the Augean stables by doing nothing more than giving a nod for prosecutions to go forward. File pic