Ninety days too many

Coming just a day after the sensational arrest of the Andhra Pradesh Home Secretary, the apex court directive that the sanction for prosecuting a public servant under the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 should come within three months of a request from an investigation agency is a shot in the arm for all those standing for probity in public life. Also welcome is the ruling that every citizen has a fundamental right to file a complaint under the PC Act. This could trigger a massive number of frivolous complaints. But it is for the courts to sift the genuine from the flippant.

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