'Insensitive' government officials need regular flogging: apex court

From correspondents in Delhi, India, 06:30 PM IST Describing government officials as 'insensitive to the suffering of people', the Supreme Court Friday said they 'need regular huntering (flogging)' to make them work. The remark was made by the second senior-most judge of the apex court, Justice B.N. Agrawal, who had abandoned on Thursday hearing of a graft case against the judiciary when he termed senior counsel Shanti Bhushan's 'contemptuous' allegations against the apex court as those of a 'street urchin'. On Friday, Justice Agrawal lost his cool over the failure of the union and all but two state governments to respond to his bench's July 14 suggestion for corrective measures to deal with the callous approach of police in filing criminal cases on the complaints of common people. 'Government officials are simply insensitive... [read full story]