( 1 ). Once again the very same squalid, shocking, disgraceful and disgusting old tale of woe and pity, of fraud and the dereliction of duty, the patent modus operandi being that of the illicit "plea-bargaining" between the learned magistrate and the accused, resulting into the gross miscarriage of justice. . Once again the law and justice appears to have been perversely made to divorce against their will in the matter of statutory minimum sentence, in total defiance on the one hand of the Law on the point of minimum sentence being crystal clear, and on the other hand of the Courts, i. e. , High Courts and the Supreme Court, repeatedly deprecating this unholy practice of "plea-bargaining", the same is not given up. If despite the High Court and the Apex Court of the country deprecating the said practice of illicit "plea-bargaining" as illegal and unconstitutional in unmistakable terms which is even otherwise first and elementary thing, duty, principle to be known, scrupulously taken care of and religiously observed by any Magistrate worth the name, and yet if the same shamefully is not to be paid any heed to mend, amend or improve its ways and instead obstinately th