RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

For­mer Jus­tice min­is­ter Prakash Ra­mad­har has come out in de­fence of the Ju­di­cia­ry, warn­ing that al­le­ga­tions against ju­di­cial of­fi­cers must be ground­ed in ev­i­dence and due process, as pub­lic de­bate con­tin­ues over in­tel­li­gence re­ports al­leg­ing that a mag­is­trate was in­volved in mon­ey laun­der­ing and formed part of an al­leged con­spir­a­cy.

Speak­ing at a me­dia con­fer­ence in San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day, Ra­mad­har said while any­one found guilty of wrong­do­ing should face the full force of the law, un­sub­stan­ti­at­ed al­le­ga­tions could cause last­ing dam­age to pub­lic con­fi­dence in the Ju­di­cia­ry, one of the coun­try’s most im­por­tant de­mo­c­ra­t­ic in­sti­tu­tions.