JUDGMENT

Rajbir Sehrawat, J. (Oral)

The idiom: ignorance is a bliss. Thomas Gray, who coined this idiom way back in 1768 in his poem to highlight the fact that it is a blessing in disguise for man that he is ignorant about future events and this ignorance gives the person an occasion to enjoy happiness which is otherwise, very short lived, must not have realized the other side of the effects of ignorance. The ignorance can be a curse as well, when the same is accompanied by the vice of indulgive self righteousness. Still further, the ignorance of a person can play havoc to another if the ignorant happens to be afflicted with another vice of human instincts, namely the jealousy, creating rivalry. Furthermore, if the ignorant afflicted with jealousy happens to a King, then his ignorance can play havoc to any person and every person, because his audience will be more than willing to execute the decree of the King, partly because of their inherent trait of psychopancy; and partly due to fear of reprisals. In such a situation the ignorant King may not spare even his kinsmen and the surrogate King. In the present case, the king happens to be a senior IAS Officer. The surrogate King happens