New Delhi: A supreme court bench, in Subramanian Swamy`s case against former union minister (DMK) A. Raja (in jail), delayed by congress rules for 12 months, to take up for consideration, has severely criticised the Prime Minister’s office, for its delay on 2-9-spectum corruption case.

The Supreme Court (SC) took PM and his office to task on Tuesday (Jan.31), for blinking on an important court case in which the verdict of SC would go a long way as a milestone in the fight against the cancerous growth of corruption in India.

The Delhi High Court had refused to order PMO to agree to prosecute A. Raja by holding an enquiry into his role in causing huge losses to the nation’s treasury, but the former Union Law minister and Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy went up to SC, against Delhi HC judgment, and his application was upheld by supreme Court, which rules that it was Indian citizens ‘constitutional right to make complaints against corrupt public servants in any government.

The SC bench that scolded the PM and PMO alike, for their delay tacties in deciding an application seeking prosecution, had Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly, who misisted on a time frame in which consent for prosecuting the wrong-doing public servants, should be given (in 4 months).