When it comes to Fish, How much is Big?

Few days back our beloved Prime Minister made a war cry: Catch the Big Fish. It is pleasant music to hear such a cry from him particularly because he is soft-spoken and hardly audible. Yesterday our Supreme Court, which is usually sober and business like, also echoed the same tune aloud. Read:

http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/supreme_court_on_madhu_koda_get_him.php

http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/will_madhu_koda_be_arrested_today.php

Both the PM and Supreme Court have echoed unity of purpose when they said, “go after big fish rather than small ones”. To be more specific, Supreme Court said it in the context of Madhu Koda.

Skeptics have a habit of reading too much between the lines. Now it is more or less clear that any fraudster in the region of Rs. 4,000 Crores falls in the category of big fish, from today's standards of Rupee's purchasing power. What about smaller fish below Rs. 4,000 Crores category? What is the cut-off limit for being branded as bigger fish? CBI is allowed to go after big, bigger and biggest fish, sharks and whales and so on or just confine to one big fish?

Despite the initial enthusiasm of all and sundry, our country has not successfully prosecuted any big and big plus category fish in last 62 years. No one was ever jailed, only detained for interrogation; no one’s property is confiscated; nothing was ever recovered from the fish’s associates i.e., co-fish.

If Rs. 70,00,000 Crores is stashed away in Swiss Banks, how many such fish are there – both dead and alive? What about the money stashed away in places other than Swiss Banks? Does the government have both the political willingness and moral righteousness to get back the money? What measures are proposed plug the avenues for corruption in future? What about Raja and his predecessors, who all supposedly used the same techniques and methodologies in spectrum sales?

Will anything ever come out of all this or just get prolonged and die natural death when Koda becomes a coalition partner in future? Or CBI will just drop the case in due course for want of evidence as in the earlier murder cases and scandals? Judges are Gods of Justice and hence talking about them would be blasphemy.