Justice Augustine Paul has outdone himself with his most recent judgment. He admits to the impotence of the judiciary in this country when it is called upon to uphold the basic tenets of democracy, freedom and justice.

He opined in his judgment that the executive is not required to furnish facts related to the reasons for detention. It surely mystifies the imagination, by what reasoning and rationale he deduced that the applicants had failed to show that their arrests and subsequent detention were done in bad faith. After all, wasn't that the reason to file the writ of habeas corpus ?

All said and done, the learned judge must surely have ensured a happy retirement from his executive masters.